[TheForge] How is Ken Zastrow doing?

[Robert Morris]

Bruce,
Ken Zastrow has improved enough to be transferred to a rehab center. His 
therapy is helping. He can say a few words and he can draw with his left 
hand. ( he is left handed which the doctors said was a plus for his 
recovery) He has learned how to operate a wheel chair and can get where he 
wants to go. He can have visitors. Nancy says that if you go to visit him 
and he is not in the room, he will be down in therapy and will return, so if 
you have time,please wait for him.
Bob M.
>From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>
>Reply-To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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>Subject: [TheForge] How is Ken Zastrow doing?
>Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:04:09 -0500
>
>Has anyone heard any update on Ken's condition?  I haven't seen anything
>here, and I don't want to bother Nancy about it.
>
>Bruce
>NJ
>
> >>> newky2 at dejazzd.com 12/5/2004 11:05:44 PM >>>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Morris [mailto:remwillow at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:51 PM
>  Subject: Ken Zastrow
>
>Hi all,
>I just received a message from Nancy about Kens stroke. Ken has a very
>large
>blood clot in his carotid artery and because of it's size, the
>surgeons
>have
>decided to try to disolve it instead of operating. He has gotten
>through
>the
>first 24 hours and that is a plus.The photos this morning indicated
>that
>the
>stroke was still expanding, and covers a large part of the left brain.
>The
>doctor said, However, with a stroke of this size it is incredible that
>he
>can respond to simple commands, can under stand us and signal with his
>eyes
>or hand squeeze. After a hard morning, when he was mostly inert and not
>
>responsive, he started to move a lot more in the afternoon. Shortly
>before
>Nancy left tonight the nurse had put him on his side, his preferred
>way
>of
>sleeping, and he got a little smile and held her hand tightly until he
>went
>to sleep. Because the area of the clot has some bleeding in it, they
>are
>not
>even giving him aspirin which is the first step in the "old fashoned"
>method
>of attack that they have adopted due to confusion and delay during that
>
>valuable window of the first 3 hrs. after it begins. Nancy and the
>children
>have not been given a very optimistic outcome, but his left-handedness
>is
>the wild card and they can't really say how it will be or what will
>happen.
>All we can do is hope and pray.
>
>
>
>
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