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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Doctor Regaining Consciousness after being Gored by Stag

Doctor Regaining Consciousness after being Gored by Stag 
DoctorA stag injured a woman near Fort William in the early hours of December 30. Dr. Kate Stone, 44, was seriously injured by the animal due to which, she had to be placed in an induced coma on Hogmanay.
An operation was also performed on her at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, to fix injuries on her windpipe. She has now been reported to have gained some consciousness and is able to communicate with doctors and family.
The animal gored the woman last month, which led medics to put her into a medically induced coma to allow her to recover.
After she suffered the injury, she was treated by paramedics and then taken to Fort William's Belford hospital. She was then taken to the Southern General in Glasgow by air.
A colleague at Dr. Stone's print firm, Novalia, has said in a statement that a second surgery was successfully was performed on her to repair damage on her trachea.
The statement said: "Over the past couple of days, Kate has slowly been regaining consciousness and becoming more active in terms of communicating with doctors and her family". It added that she has showed all signs of satisfactory recovery and doctors will keep a watch on her progress over the next couple of weeks.

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