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Text: Caring bridge for Brett Hansen-Begg
Author: Greta & Alan Hansen-Begg
33 days ago today, August 29th 2008, one of my friends Brett Hansen-Begg was in a horrible car crash. He had many little things go wrong, but the just is that he is in a coma due to brain trauma. In the crash his best friend, Luke, died. Brett has been through a lot this past month. He is getting much better though when he first arrived at Hennepin county medical center (HCMC) he was on a ventilator and hooked up to many tubes and could not really move. Today Brett is no longer on the ventilator, is now on a bouls feeding tube (meaning he is not constantly having a food drip, but gets fed only four times a day… One less tube he has to be connected to) he can now move in reaction to pain and is starting to move in reaction to commands, he is awake during the day (still in a coma) and sleeping during night which the doctors say is an important part of recovery, and so much more. Just yesterday he moved locations Brett is now at Gillette Children's Specialty Hospital in St. Paul which is a rehab hospital. Brett is very busy with all different sorts of physical therapy here every day, but Sundays. Brett also gets to wear real clothes not gowns at Gillette. Even though Brett is still in a coma he has come so far and making improvements everyday and we hope he keeps having improvements until he’s back to his old self!
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I'm really sorry to hear about your friend. This is a sad situation, but also hopeful in that he is making progress towards recovery. I hope your friend continues to recover well.
Is this the guy that you are going to the benefit for?
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