Information on Dallas....

So it has been a week and the support from everyone has been amazing. Here is an update... Not a lot is changing in his swelling in his brain. They are treating the swelling with alot less medication but for the doctors to feel comfortable to start to try and wake him up he needs to be able to manage the swelling much better for 48 hours by himself. When not on the heavy amounts of meds he moves his arms, legs and shoulders. This is a great sign but doesn't tell us a ton yet about possible long term affects. These movements maybe voluntary or involuntary, we are unable to determine at what percentage that is... My wife and I spoke to a nurse and after explaining that to us, he said watch this... This is voluntary. He proceeded to pinch his right index finger and Dallas pulled away from the pain.. He said "that is voluntary" he then pinched his big toe and Dallas pulled his foot away from the pain. The nurse explained that this was a high level brain activity. His temperature is still a little high, which is normal with brain trauma. Also he is dealing with blood clots in his legs and pnuemonia is setting in... Both of these are common given the situation. Just continue to pray and we appreciate your thoughts and well wishes... I know Dallas would feel humbled by all the love... I also know Dallas is dying for a pizza, so we are trying to find a way to get that into the tiny feeding tube... Thanks for all your support and hope all of you are blessed.....

Sterling

These shoes have 2 purposes...

First purpose is to make sure the achilles tendons are in the right position so that they won't become soft and in an incorrect position. Second and most important they give us all a great reason to give him crap when he comes to because if he were awake, we all know he wouldn't be seen in public with them...

Dallas has been in an accident

As many of you know Dallas Griffiths has been in an accident. This is what we know... He was long boarding in Snow Canyon (St. George) We was with Josh Featherstone. It was told that he passed Josh and when Josh caught up to him, Dallas had already fallen. After trying to revive him the medical staff at Dixie Regional decided to Life Flight him to IMC... in Salt Lake. He arrived on Tuesday the 12th and then under went test and it was found he was ok to have a surgery to stabilize the brain. He is still unresponsive and and still under sedation..(we would call it a medically induced comma) The swelling in his face has gone down but the Neuro Surgeon's have said that little improvement on the swelling in his brain as of Friday the 15th. These are picture that I have taken from my cell phone... Please forward this to anyone you think might want to see the link... I am sorry it includes my family photos but this is the best forum to get the photos to everyone....

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The family of Dallas...