Bailey is jogging around hospital and then sent home
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Another picture, posted by Tavon on instagram:
It's so hard to tell how serious it is. I didn't expect a forehead bandage, I imagined semi-grazing wounds, and TA looks damned concerned and like he's trying to figure it out.
What a picture.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/12/24/stedman-bailey-home-from-the-hospital/
Stedman Bailey home from the hospital
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 24, 2015
AP
It will be a very Merry Christmas for the family of Rams receiver Stedman Bailey.
Bailey wrote on Twitter on Wednesday evening that he had been released from the hospital and is back home, a month after he was shot in the head.
“What a great feeling it is to be home and away from the hospital,” Bailey wrote. “I need to put a bow on my head and lay under the Christmas tree!”
Bailey was shot twice in the head on November 24 in an incident that police in Miami are still investigating.
Although Bailey is now healthy enough to be home, Rams coach Jeff Fisher has said that Bailey’s injuries were severe enough that his career is likely over.
Stedman Bailey home from the hospital
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 24, 2015
It will be a very Merry Christmas for the family of Rams receiver Stedman Bailey.
Bailey wrote on Twitter on Wednesday evening that he had been released from the hospital and is back home, a month after he was shot in the head.
“What a great feeling it is to be home and away from the hospital,” Bailey wrote. “I need to put a bow on my head and lay under the Christmas tree!”
Bailey was shot twice in the head on November 24 in an incident that police in Miami are still investigating.
Although Bailey is now healthy enough to be home, Rams coach Jeff Fisher has said that Bailey’s injuries were severe enough that his career is likely over.
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If you watch that jog, that was a "head injury" jog. He's putting it back together pretty much from scratch. I've seen it first hand at the VA and the idea that he gets back to the heights of where he was athletically is extremely remote. Not impossible, but remote.
God bless him for his recovery. Just that bit of progress is an amazing blessing.
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I've been through similar with learning how to walk again after a spinal surgery. As long as he doesn't have nerve damage, it should come back as the swelling goes down which can take a couple months at least.
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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/12/24/stedman-bailey-home-from-the-hospital/
Stedman Bailey home from the hospital
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 24, 2015
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“What a great feeling it is to be home and away from the hospital,” Bailey wrote. “I need to put a bow on my head and lay under the Christmas tree!”
Great to see him with a sense of humor. This quote remind anyone else of a certain touchdown celebration from earlier in the year?:banana:
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True about the spinal, but not so much if he has a brain injury which he very likely may have. It's possible that the bullets only hit his head and they had to clean up the fragments and the impact of the bullet caused swelling in the brain and that is what's causing the impairment. Me, the wife and my son were in a huge car accident when he was little that fractured his skull and his situation was different because he was an infant. He completely healed other than a pinpoint lesion.
We'll know a lot more in the coming days, but there's almost no chance if he could ever come back that it would be in 2016. I'm pretty sure Coach Fisher wouldn't have said what he said if he hadn't been appraised of Sted's medical situation and couldn't speak from pretty solid footing.
I'd LOVE for Stedman to come back and ball out. I just think the miracle for him is that he survived to be a father to his child.
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Would love some detailed information on the wound. From the placing of that bandage, simply incredible he is alive. There is no questioned he is beloved on this team with deep roots with Tavon and strong bonds with everyone else. So thankful we didn't lose him.
Speedy recovery, Step!
(Heard he was jogging and is now home. Amazing.)
Speedy recovery, Step!
(Heard he was jogging and is now home. Amazing.)
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http://www.medicinenet.com/surviving_a_gunshot_wound_to_the_head/views.htm
Surviving a Gunshot Wound to the Head
Medical Author:
Benjamin Wedro, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Medical Editor:
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Most people learn about gunshot wounds from watching television or going to the movies. From "Gunsmoke" to "The Sopranos," and action packed films, guns and violence are often integral parts of the story line. Being shot on the screen can result in instant death, drawn out death scenes, or heroes who brush off the injury and save the day.
In real life, the same alternatives exist, depending upon what type of firearm and bullets were used, and where the bullet(s) entered and/or exited the body. It's all a matter of physics and how much damage the energy the bullet causes.
When a bullet hits the body, all the energy it has is transferred to the body tissue causing damage. The heavier the bullet and the faster it moves the more damage it can potentially cause.
The laws of physics state that energy is directly related to the weight of the bullet, meaning that if the weight doubles, the energy doubles. But energy increases by the square of the velocity. Doubling the speed increases the energy fourfold. The purpose of a gun is to make a bullet go faster.
The type of bullet can also make a difference. If it is narrow and maintains its shape when it hits the body, it may be able to pass right through tissue without causing much secondary damage. However, if it's built to explode on contact, more tissue injury may occur. The way the bullet hits and enters the body is also important and has to do with the yaw, or side to side movement of the bullet as it enters the body.
An analogy is a football thrown in a tight spiral, there is less resistance as it passes through the air than if it is moving side to side or wobbling. The more the wobble, the greater the potential to transfer energy to the body and cause damage.
The combination of velocity and bullet dynamics, and the location in the body where the bullet enters will determine how much damage occurs. Gunshot wounds can be classified as low or high velocity, depending upon the type of firearm used. The cutoff is a speed of 2,000 feet per second. As a general rule, most handguns are low velocity, and hunting and military guns are high velocity.
Damage to the body from a bullet is caused in a two ways.
Some bullets can pass through the body with relative little damage, while others enter the body and then ping pong around inside damaging whatever tissue or organs are in its way. If the bullet damages a major artery or the heart, death may occur almost instantaneously; however, some people are lucky and survive a gunshot wound if nothing critical is damaged.
Gunshot wounds to the head are more difficult to predict. Think of the skull as a closed box that cradles the brain. There isn't a lot of room for movement fo the brain or swelling in the skull. If a bullet enters the head and bounces around, the permanent cavity (bullet track) may be large, but the damage from the temporary cavity that forms is even worse.
There is no room for the brain to move and the shock waves often cause irreversible damage. For some lucky people, if the bullet velocity is high and there is no side to side movement (wobble) and it passes through non-critical parts of the brain, less damage occurs and survival is possible.
Picture of the brain and potentially brain injury areas
Getting shot is bad. Ultimately, it's the luck of the draw as to how much damage the body can absorb and still function. Some victims are lucky and walk away; others don't. It's all about physics.
Medically reviewed by Joseph Carcione, DO; American board of Psychiatry and Neurology
REFERENCE:
Fauci, Anthony S., et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. United States: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-te.brain05oct05-story.html
Only 5% survive gunshot wounds to head
Jonathan Bor/Sun reporter
"I have to say it would be location, location, location" of the wound, said Dr. Michael Nance, director of the pediatric trauma program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
There is no precise formula for survival, but Nance and other surgeons said the bullet's direction plays a major role in the extent of injury. Patients who are shot from the front to the back of the head often have a better chance than those shot from side to side.
This is because a bullet traveling from front to back generally destroys just one of the brain's two hemispheres. "A front-to-back injury can wipe out one hemisphere while leaving the other intact," said Nance.
Extent of damage The exception is the bullet that travels along the brain's midline, where it can damage both hemispheres, along with the brain's central core, which controls many of the body's functions.
A bullet that damages the patient's right hemisphere can leave the victim with weakness on the left side, and vice versa. But many other functions, such as cognition, memory and speech, are controlled by both sides of the brain.
As a result, damage to one hemisphere can leave a patient impaired but still able to perform those functions on some level.
With each hemisphere divided into four lobes, the "best-case scenario" is a bullet that injures one hemisphere and a single lobe - limiting the functions lost to the injury.
"As soon as the bullet crosses the midline, involving more than one lobe, it's very deadly," said Dr. Bizhan Aarabi, director of neurotrauma at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
According to Aarabi, 20,000 people in the United States die each year from gunshot wounds to the head. The survival rate is about 5 percent, with only 3 percent achieving a good quality of life afterward.
In 2000, Maryland recorded 235 penetrating brain injuries - 208 of them lethal.
Consciousness When a patient arrives at Shock Trauma with this type of injury, the staff's first priority is to gauge the person's level of consciousness.
Looking at indicators such as whether the patient can move limbs or respond to someone's voice, they rate the victim's consciousness on a so-called Glasgow scale of 3 to 15.
A CT scan reveals important features of the injury - such as major bleeding or damage to the brain stem, both of which bode poorly for the patient. Located in the back of the head and just above the spinal cord, the brain stem controls involuntary functions such as breathing and heartbeat.
"You knock that out and you don't have much hope," said Nance.
Generally, patients transported to trauma centers with gunshot injuries to the head spend an hour being resuscitated, evaluated and stabilized before they're wheeled into surgery.
Surgeons have many goals, but removing the bullet is not one of them. "One, you can't really find it, and you don't want to go digging in the brain to find it," Nance said. "You'll injure tissue to get to it."
Instead, surgeons concentrate on reducing as much of the bullet's damage as they can. They remove dead tissue - a process called debridement - and relieve pressure and swelling that can occur in the injury's aftermath. In some cases, surgeons temporarily remove a portion of the patient's skull to give the swelling brain a safe outlet.
Without such an outlet, the brain has a tendency to herniate into the only natural opening - at the base of the skull.
"It's a terminal event," said Nance.
Surviving a Gunshot Wound to the Head
Medical Author:
Benjamin Wedro, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Medical Editor:
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Most people learn about gunshot wounds from watching television or going to the movies. From "Gunsmoke" to "The Sopranos," and action packed films, guns and violence are often integral parts of the story line. Being shot on the screen can result in instant death, drawn out death scenes, or heroes who brush off the injury and save the day.
In real life, the same alternatives exist, depending upon what type of firearm and bullets were used, and where the bullet(s) entered and/or exited the body. It's all a matter of physics and how much damage the energy the bullet causes.
When a bullet hits the body, all the energy it has is transferred to the body tissue causing damage. The heavier the bullet and the faster it moves the more damage it can potentially cause.
The laws of physics state that energy is directly related to the weight of the bullet, meaning that if the weight doubles, the energy doubles. But energy increases by the square of the velocity. Doubling the speed increases the energy fourfold. The purpose of a gun is to make a bullet go faster.
The type of bullet can also make a difference. If it is narrow and maintains its shape when it hits the body, it may be able to pass right through tissue without causing much secondary damage. However, if it's built to explode on contact, more tissue injury may occur. The way the bullet hits and enters the body is also important and has to do with the yaw, or side to side movement of the bullet as it enters the body.
An analogy is a football thrown in a tight spiral, there is less resistance as it passes through the air than if it is moving side to side or wobbling. The more the wobble, the greater the potential to transfer energy to the body and cause damage.
The combination of velocity and bullet dynamics, and the location in the body where the bullet enters will determine how much damage occurs. Gunshot wounds can be classified as low or high velocity, depending upon the type of firearm used. The cutoff is a speed of 2,000 feet per second. As a general rule, most handguns are low velocity, and hunting and military guns are high velocity.
Damage to the body from a bullet is caused in a two ways.
- The first type of injury is caused by the direct blow or crush of the bullet. Whatever gets in its way is damaged, and this bullet track causes a permanent cavity. If the bullet yaws, the energy transfer increases and the cavity becomes larger.
- The second injury type is caused by the shock waves of the bullet. The tissue surrounding the bullet track becomes caught up in a temporary vacuum that can be as much as 40 times as large as the bullet itself. This tissue cavity gets stretched and deformed and then reforms itself numerous times, like ripples in the water, until the tissue cavity returns to normal position. With this type of injury, the higher the velocity of the bullet, the larger the cavity of tissue that is at risk for damage.
Some bullets can pass through the body with relative little damage, while others enter the body and then ping pong around inside damaging whatever tissue or organs are in its way. If the bullet damages a major artery or the heart, death may occur almost instantaneously; however, some people are lucky and survive a gunshot wound if nothing critical is damaged.
Gunshot wounds to the head are more difficult to predict. Think of the skull as a closed box that cradles the brain. There isn't a lot of room for movement fo the brain or swelling in the skull. If a bullet enters the head and bounces around, the permanent cavity (bullet track) may be large, but the damage from the temporary cavity that forms is even worse.
There is no room for the brain to move and the shock waves often cause irreversible damage. For some lucky people, if the bullet velocity is high and there is no side to side movement (wobble) and it passes through non-critical parts of the brain, less damage occurs and survival is possible.
Picture of the brain and potentially brain injury areas
Getting shot is bad. Ultimately, it's the luck of the draw as to how much damage the body can absorb and still function. Some victims are lucky and walk away; others don't. It's all about physics.
Medically reviewed by Joseph Carcione, DO; American board of Psychiatry and Neurology
REFERENCE:
Fauci, Anthony S., et al. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 17th ed. United States: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-te.brain05oct05-story.html
Only 5% survive gunshot wounds to head
Jonathan Bor/Sun reporter
"I have to say it would be location, location, location" of the wound, said Dr. Michael Nance, director of the pediatric trauma program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
There is no precise formula for survival, but Nance and other surgeons said the bullet's direction plays a major role in the extent of injury. Patients who are shot from the front to the back of the head often have a better chance than those shot from side to side.
This is because a bullet traveling from front to back generally destroys just one of the brain's two hemispheres. "A front-to-back injury can wipe out one hemisphere while leaving the other intact," said Nance.
Extent of damage The exception is the bullet that travels along the brain's midline, where it can damage both hemispheres, along with the brain's central core, which controls many of the body's functions.
A bullet that damages the patient's right hemisphere can leave the victim with weakness on the left side, and vice versa. But many other functions, such as cognition, memory and speech, are controlled by both sides of the brain.
As a result, damage to one hemisphere can leave a patient impaired but still able to perform those functions on some level.
With each hemisphere divided into four lobes, the "best-case scenario" is a bullet that injures one hemisphere and a single lobe - limiting the functions lost to the injury.
"As soon as the bullet crosses the midline, involving more than one lobe, it's very deadly," said Dr. Bizhan Aarabi, director of neurotrauma at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
According to Aarabi, 20,000 people in the United States die each year from gunshot wounds to the head. The survival rate is about 5 percent, with only 3 percent achieving a good quality of life afterward.
In 2000, Maryland recorded 235 penetrating brain injuries - 208 of them lethal.
Consciousness When a patient arrives at Shock Trauma with this type of injury, the staff's first priority is to gauge the person's level of consciousness.
Looking at indicators such as whether the patient can move limbs or respond to someone's voice, they rate the victim's consciousness on a so-called Glasgow scale of 3 to 15.
A CT scan reveals important features of the injury - such as major bleeding or damage to the brain stem, both of which bode poorly for the patient. Located in the back of the head and just above the spinal cord, the brain stem controls involuntary functions such as breathing and heartbeat.
"You knock that out and you don't have much hope," said Nance.
Generally, patients transported to trauma centers with gunshot injuries to the head spend an hour being resuscitated, evaluated and stabilized before they're wheeled into surgery.
Surgeons have many goals, but removing the bullet is not one of them. "One, you can't really find it, and you don't want to go digging in the brain to find it," Nance said. "You'll injure tissue to get to it."
Instead, surgeons concentrate on reducing as much of the bullet's damage as they can. They remove dead tissue - a process called debridement - and relieve pressure and swelling that can occur in the injury's aftermath. In some cases, surgeons temporarily remove a portion of the patient's skull to give the swelling brain a safe outlet.
Without such an outlet, the brain has a tendency to herniate into the only natural opening - at the base of the skull.
"It's a terminal event," said Nance.
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I would hope Fisher's comments are based on what Rams' team doctors are telling him rather than talking out his donkey like us fans.
IF the MD's have told Fisher it's unlikely Sted will play again, it must be because of their assessment of the damage done.
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OK maybe I missed something but I thought it had been reported that the shots to the head were more grazing shots but the shot to the hip wasn't a graze it was a hit.
Any help to clear this up for me?
Either way I'm glad he's going to be OK.
Any help to clear this up for me?
Either way I'm glad he's going to be OK.