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Mike Anthony: UConn's Eli Thomas Recovering From Stroke With Backing Of Strong Family And Communities.
>>...Thomas, who suffered a stroke while stretching in preparation for a workout on the Storrs campus, is expected to make a full recovery. He left inpatient rehab Friday, returning to his Elmira home from a facility in Williamsport, Pa., and he is at the outset of a long outpatient program that will mainly address his impaired speech.<<
>>For now Thomas is – get this — running hills and doing lunges during therapy. He is not on medication. He is feeling fine, physically, his mother said, adding that there are quiet times of frustration because sitting through speech therapy is torture for a guy so used to going full throttle. Thomas spent nine days at Hartford Hospital and six more in Williamsport.<<
>>Less than a month later, he was in emergency surgery. The clot was removed without complications. Doctors “went over that boy with a fine-tooth comb,” Turner said, but no origin of the stroke was identified.<<
>>“There is nothing that UConn could do that they haven't done,” Turner said. “They haven't been amazing just from, ‘Oh, he's one of our students.’ They have been amazing because they clearly love him. They have been devastated as we have been. Randy was at the hospital multiple times. The team doctor [Deena Casiero] was at the hospital multiple times and I’m still in very close touch with her. I can't even tell you how many staff were there many, many, many times. As corny as it sounds, they've become like family in a very short time and they've cried right along with us.”<<
Mike Anthony: UConn's Eli Thomas Recovering From Stroke With Backing Of Strong Family And Communities.
>>...Thomas, who suffered a stroke while stretching in preparation for a workout on the Storrs campus, is expected to make a full recovery. He left inpatient rehab Friday, returning to his Elmira home from a facility in Williamsport, Pa., and he is at the outset of a long outpatient program that will mainly address his impaired speech.<<
>>For now Thomas is – get this — running hills and doing lunges during therapy. He is not on medication. He is feeling fine, physically, his mother said, adding that there are quiet times of frustration because sitting through speech therapy is torture for a guy so used to going full throttle. Thomas spent nine days at Hartford Hospital and six more in Williamsport.<<
>>Less than a month later, he was in emergency surgery. The clot was removed without complications. Doctors “went over that boy with a fine-tooth comb,” Turner said, but no origin of the stroke was identified.<<
>>“There is nothing that UConn could do that they haven't done,” Turner said. “They haven't been amazing just from, ‘Oh, he's one of our students.’ They have been amazing because they clearly love him. They have been devastated as we have been. Randy was at the hospital multiple times. The team doctor [Deena Casiero] was at the hospital multiple times and I’m still in very close touch with her. I can't even tell you how many staff were there many, many, many times. As corny as it sounds, they've become like family in a very short time and they've cried right along with us.”<<
