Monday, June 20, 2011

Steven R. Berryman The Tentacle: Promised to No Man

June 20, 2011

Promised to No Man

Steven R. Berryman http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4468

My family and I have been living in an “altered state of awareness” since the recent motor scooter accident involving a 19-year-old close family friend, Alex Bodroghy, of Discovery in Walkersville.

He’s one of those children who hangs out with my eldest son and seems to just be another appendage to our clan. He’s been in the ICU of R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center of The University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore for almost two weeks now, and receives 24/7 care to stay alive. He suffered a massive brain injury.

His prognosis is uncertain, and he’s still not always stable.

There’s hope, but everyone involved knows that it will be a very long road to even get him fully stabilized, let alone allow for a semblance of normalcy.

Last Friday The Frederick News-Post ran in my regular Friday column space “In an instant,” which covered the crash and aftermath of the head-on collision, linked here in my blog: In an instant [traumatic brain injury] ...

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See www.CaringBridge.com/visit/AlexBodroghy to follow the story.

To contribute to the family’s massive needs there is a site set up now: “Support Big Al Bodroghy” P.O. Box 103, Walkersville, MD, 21793

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4468