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Alan07 03-02-2011 01:19 PM

Kathy Ritvo said she and Reeves visited Coa in Memorial East Regional Hospital in nearby Hollywood on Wednesday morning.

Coa was to have a second surgery on his broken wrist Wednesday afternoon.

http://www.drf.com/news/mucho-macho-...ouisiana-derby

Kasept 03-21-2011 12:53 PM

Coa, making steady progress and walking in therapy sessions, visited today by the So. FL colony as posted by Joe Bravo at facebook.


GPK 03-29-2011 05:49 AM

http://www.drf.com/news/eibar-coa-ta...iding-accident

justindew 03-29-2011 06:24 AM

Sounds like this story has a chance for a much happier ending than many may have expected. Awesome.

Kasept 03-29-2011 06:31 PM

Coa walks to join friends at golf benefit
By Mike Welsch

Jockey Eibar Coa proved miracles can happen when he arrived at the Woodmont Country Club in Tamarac, Fla., late Tuesday afternoon to attend a benefit golf tournament held in his honor.

Coa, who was left nearly paralyzed throughout his body after sustaining a fracture of the C4 vertebra in his neck in a spill that took place pulling up after the finish of the sixth race at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 18, brought many of those in attendance at the golf tournament to tears when he got out of his wheelchair and walked to join his many friends and colleagues from the jocks' room for a group picture.

Sightseek 03-29-2011 07:59 PM

That is awesome.

Riot 03-29-2011 09:40 PM

Wow, great news. Thanks for the update.

Alan07 04-13-2011 04:46 PM

Eibar Coa to leave hospital
Eibar Coa, who suffered a broken neck in a spill following the conclusion of the sixth race here on Feb. 18 that initially left him with limited movement from the neck down, will be released from Memorial Regional Hospital South on Thursday.

Coa will leave Memorial Regional “walking,” according to a press release distributed by the hospital on Wednesday.

TouchOfGrey 04-14-2011 10:31 PM

Coa Walks 'Miraculously' Out of Hospital

Quote:

“In all my years of neurosurgery never have I seen a case, an event, this impressive and this miraculous. To have a man who’s completely paralyzed from the neck down—a complete quadriplegic—and then be able to get up and walk is an extremely rare event,” said Dr. Scott Berta, the Memorial neurosurgeon who performed two surgeries to stabilize and repair Coa’s injury. “And do to it so quickly on top of it is pretty much unheard of.”

Danzig 04-15-2011 06:33 AM

this is fantastic, fabulous news. happy for coa that he has recovered so well.

dellinger63 04-15-2011 08:46 AM

Too cool. Thanks for the updates.


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