Rider #446 - Chris Dinoia - Slowpoke Racing

Weekend update #2: Sorry I havent been on with more of these, been a little crazy lately. Chris is out of ICU and has been more awake for a few days. He had surgery on his broken left arm finally too. One lung has made a comeback, the other lung wont give in without a fight and will need more time. He has made strides in that he can obey commands such as raising his good arm, wiggling feet, etc. I think the cracked vertabrae will heal on its own and the broken ribs as well. So we're hoping the physical stuff is in check for the most part as long as no big setbacks occur. He can't walk or talk and the biggest issue right now is his memory. He's not remembering people and many basic functions are impossible. He isn't completely alert. Enough of the bad stuff though. All things considered we are really happy at this point, and today is only 2 weeks from the crash so it's still very early days. He has come so far considering what he's been through and we're hoping the memory issue will heal up. Chris will be transported to a Boston rehab facility in next day or two hopefully to assist with that. So that's it for now...

Sounds like things are heading in the right direction!

Thanks for the update, Larry!

Keeping Chris in my thoughts.

Progress is progress. Great to hear.

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Great to hear! Glad that he's awake and doing well enough to be moved to the rehab center. Keep pushing forward Chris!

Great update !

I don't come up on NESR often, and had some reading to do to catch up, but it's good to hear that he is making progress. As everyone else, best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.

Hopefully I can make it up to the next event for the BBQ and such.

Awesome news!!! Hope to hear more soon!

Thanks for the update, and good on the Rehab center!

Thank you for the update!!!

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Originally Posted by Slowpoke387

Weekend update #2: Sorry I havent been on with more of these, been a little crazy lately. Chris is out of ICU and has been more awake for a few days. He had surgery on his broken left arm finally too. One lung has made a comeback, the other lung wont give in without a fight and will need more time. He has made strides in that he can obey commands such as raising his good arm, wiggling feet, etc. I think the cracked vertabrae will heal on its own and the broken ribs as well. So we're hoping the physical stuff is in check for the most part as long as no big setbacks occur. He can't walk or talk and the biggest issue right now is his memory. He's not remembering people and many basic functions are impossible. He isn't completely alert. Enough of the bad stuff though. All things considered we are really happy at this point, and today is only 2 weeks from the crash so it's still very early days. He has come so far considering what he's been through and we're hoping the memory issue will heal up. Chris will be transported to a Boston rehab facility in next day or two hopefully to assist with that. So that's it for now...

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Praise God! That is good news!!! I'll def keep him in my prayers!

One of my buddies came out of a coma in the same shape. Basic commands were okay but couldn't remember most people. Remembered me but thought we were still kids and was very confused. When he did start talking everything was garbled and all the words were wrong. Basic concept was there but none of the words tied together correctly and tenses were scattered. Within about 2 weeks he started remembering things again - though never the accident - and within a month most of the basic functions were back. So yeah, just encouragement on that man!

Thats great news thanx for the update.Our prayers go out to Chris and his family.We hope for a quick recovery,gooooooooSlowPokeRacing.Patrick

Thats great news thanx for the update.Our prayers go out to Chris and his family.We hope for a quick recovery,gooooooooSlowPokeRacing.Patrick

Great news,Chris is in our prayers

GREAT NEWS LARRY!!!! please give me a call regarding the auction I have going for Chris and his family. 774-200-6395. Thanks for the update.

I was so excited to hear of the progress earlier. Thank you for posting it up. It looks like im going to try to be up at the track early this weekend if you guys need help setting up anything auction wise or BBQ wise or whatever else please let me know. Im on track working sad / sun until the last bikes are off course but I will be around thurs and fri as well. Larry I will come find you and introduce myself.

Thanks again for posting up this update.

This is awesome news. Still a long way to go, but come so far from where he was.

Keep it up, Chris!

thanks for the update! Great news!!

Awesome to hear. We are all pulling for him.

Thanks for the update. I'm glad to see things are going in the right direction!

Thanks for the update Larry. Hope the next one is even better!

Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Larry. I will continue to send my well-wishes to Chris on a speedy and full recovery.

Thanks for updating us Larry... baby steps and steady progress is great.

Any new news?

That's impressive progress for only 2 weeks! His fitness level will be (and already has been) a big advantage to aiding in his recovery! Keep fighting Chris! You have hundreds of people fighting along with you!