A Visit to Salt Lake City, UT - October 2002
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Wasatch Valley Rehab
3300 S 2200 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84109
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Wasatch Valley Rehab
Front Portico
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Talking to Mom
on the Telephone
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Wasatch Valley Rehab
Main Corridor
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Ned and Rob in Room 37
Saturday, October 12, 2002
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"Hey, Mom!
Give me a PIN."
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My brother, Robert Anthony Flaspoehler, suffered
Traumatic Brain Injury as a result of a pedestrian/vehicle accident on
July 22, 2002. He was air lifted from the accident scene to LDS Hospital
in Salt Lake City, where he remained in a coma for several weeks. After his
stay in the hospital for three weeks, he was transferred to Wasatch
Valley Rehabilitation Center in Salt Lake City. He has now come out of
the coma, and seems to be on a slow but steady improvement. He was
placed on a tracheotomy or breathing tube and feeding tube while he was
still in the hospital. He is now off the trache, but still needs the
feeding tube because he is not yet able to swallow reliably, and is
probably not able to feed himself anyway.
Nevertheless, Rob is fast improving since coming out of
the coma, and is straining the staff resources at Wasatch Valley Rehab,
who are trained to handle geriatric patients, rather than a very active TBI patient who is improving rapidly. Security is the main problem,
especially since he wants to "go home," which means walk out
into the street, unattended.
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Rob will probably soon be transferred to
the Infinia at Granite Hills rehab facility, which specializes
in TBI patients. It is perhaps not as nice as Wasatch Valley
Rehab, but they do offer the security he needs so he will not walk
out of the building and into the street. |
Infinia at Granite Hills
Front Entrance
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Infinia at Granite Hills
Side Entrance
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The Accident Site
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The Accident Site
Looking East: 3300 S 500 E
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The Intersection
3300 S 500 E
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From Across the Street
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Close Up of the Bus Stop
Bus 31 and Bus 131
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3300 S at State Street
Salt Lake City, UT
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LDS Hospital
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LDS Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT
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LDS Hospital
Front Entrance
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Nearby Neighborhood
Homes
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[ Up ] [ I-70 through Kansas and Colorado ] [ Utah's I-70 ] [ With Rob at the Nursing Home ] [ Rob's Lawyers and Caregivers ] [ Carol, Brittney and The Girls ] [ BIAU Brain Injury Conference ] [ Temple Square and Utah Symphony ] [ Arches National Park ] [ New Mexico and I-40 ]
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