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Originally Posted by CzechFold
Dani since you're seemingly in pretty close contact with him/his family etc, do you happen to know what the general prognosis is for him? Any idea to what extent people recover from these types of illnesses and what the general timeframe is?
Keep in mind that I haven't spoken to a single doctor, and almost everything I am saying is from his GF, a few very quick sentences with his parents, from other friends, or my impressions from seeing him. The general sense is that this will take a LONG time, no matter what. There seems to also be a very wide range of possible outcomes and degrees of recovery. Sam (the gf) said that there are no definitive tests the docs can do right now to see where he's at, or where he will be in the future. They are basically trying to push him a little bit every day, seeing how much they can get out of him. For example they are asking him very obvious questions, and trying to train him to learn to say yes or no with blinks. "Is your dogs name melo?" "Is your dogs name spike?"-- that sort of stuff. They had him sitting up earlier today, and he kept his head upright for the first time on his own--apparently this is a big step.
These are the sort of things they are working on right now, so I have no idea what they are even thinking about for 6, 12, 24 months down the line.