Cyclist and Lawyer Gary Kelley recovers remarkably from head injury
Kelley, a nationally ranked bicycle racer, was going in and out of consciousness after suffering a severe head injury in a cycling accident. Prognoses from the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center specialists treating him weren’t good. "Through it all, I remember a presence telling me, ’It’s not your time,’" said Kelley, 50. "Then I saw my father, who died 10 years ago," he said. "He nodded to me and said, ’Come on, boy.’ We walked and came to a spot where the fog dispersed, and I just woke up." His recovery from the April 14th crash has been far faster and more complete than expected. He’s even hoping to return to his law practice this fall. Initially, the most favorable predictions were that he’d spend months in the hospital, followed by months in rehabilitation. Instead, he was discharged from the hospital two weeks after the accident. He left wearing protective headgear over the 4-by-4-inch section doctors removed from his skull to allow for brain swelling. That piece of bone was reattached during his five weeks of outpatient rehab.
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