Thomas Schuler's Recovery Thread

[MrsZero]

Your in our prayers!!

[royone1one]

On monday I am going to get some stickers printed up, probably around 100-150 and sell them for $10 a piece with hopes to raise around 1000 for Thomas and his family. I will let you know as soon as I get this finalised

I'll buy a few.

ill buy a few too.

[11kphotos]

Drewek, i'm in. let me know if you need help.

[schuler977'smom]

Hello Family "MX"
Our family can't even begin to THANK all of you enough for all of your prayers and Good wishes for Thomas and us. We have just received a visit from the Huddles, Shand, and Aaron and with them came a monetary contributions from all of you, and many well wishes. We cannot thank all of you enough. The MX community is one of the strongest families that we know. We love all of you, and Thank you, Thank you, Thank You. I will post an update shortly with my T-Man's condition.
Live, Love, and Ride forever,
Thomas 977's Mom

[gateguyhuddle]

A. Smith is creating a poster tribute to Thomas, look for a copy soon here.
Vistied Thomas today and he looks good and is slowly improving,
Everyone continue to pray for him and his family it really does work.

Poster in progress, ASmith

[SG Berm book]

That's awesome SG! Any updates on Thomas?

Well - there were a lot of friends and family up at the hospital today. Visiting is very strict right now, and the family/hospital is very selective on visits (understandabe), as there has to be Total Silence in the room. Thomas is still in a coma and it has been 48 hours now. Thomas's mom said that the docs told her that the first 48-72 hours are the most important, and things have not gotten worse at this point. As you can imagine, Thomas is hooked up to every type of monitor known to man & has a bolt drilled into his head to monitor brain-pressure. From all accounts today..it seems that the brain pressure monitoring is hubbering right around where it needs to be...which is a good sign.

Thomas is definitely not out of the dark yet, so Please continue to keep #977 in your Thoughts and Prayers. Right now it's all about WAIT, HOPE & SEE!

This has grabbed a hold of a lot of past/current racers, friends & family. The Schuler family THANKS ALL OF YOU for everything!

[krew356]

Thomas, as Shand said, is one of the nicest, most laid back, genuinely nicest guys you could meet. This sucks, but he will pull through. Just please, everyone keep him, his family, friends and loved ones in your prayers. The power of prayer is awesome. I truly believe he will have a 100% recovery and that the Lord will be glorified through all of this. All of us at Five8 MX will be keeping him in our daily prayers.
I also want to trow out MAD PROPS to Shand G. and his efforts on the mic Saturday night @ Freestone. He did an awesome job of keeping Thomas and his family on everyone's minds during the race. And thanks to everyone who shelled out $$$$, it was a true testament to the MX community!!!
take care!
kw

[spanky]

man this is horrible, but the only thing i can think of is when we all got the news about ernie P's accident a few years ago. it didnt look good for that kid at all, but he pulled through it... keep praying for thomas.

cody, if you get the stickers done, get with me and we will be glad to sell them at the track next weekend, and ill take 4 for myself.

[mx320]

I am very sorry to hear this. Thomas and his family/friends are in my thoughts and prayers.

Get well soon!

[977 Dad]

I just wanted to drop a note here and thank everyone who is keeping Thomas in their thought and prayers and for the unbelievable support this MX community has shown for Thomas. I was told about this forum and wanted to read the posts, I didn't make it through without getting tears in my eyes, so please forgive me if this sounds like I am rambling as this has been the worst weekend of my life. This is the latest I can share about Thomas's current condition. Thomas's body is strong and he is breathing on his own now, they have adjusted the respirator and he is controlling his own breathing. This is obviously a good sign. They have been monitoring the pressure in his head for the last two days, and those readings have looked good, and they may remove that sensor later today. The last CT scan which was done showed no change which means the bleeding in his brain stem has appeared to have stopped. Right now they are doing another scan to gage his progress and then will do an "EEG" (not sure if I got the letters right) but it will measure activity in his brain, first time this has been done. As of this morning he has not responded to the neurological tests that they continue to do. When they back off the medication that is keeping him sedated he hyperventilates so he is not ready for that yet. I have picked up on some conversation amongst the doctors and nurses here, they are saying his progress to this point is amazing for his injury. Any one that knows Thomas knows that you can't tell him he can't do something, because he will prove you wrong. Right now Thomas needs all of the prayers we can get for him, so keep praying and ask any one you know that believes in God to pray for a complete recovery. I not only pray for Thomas's recovery but for God to keep every one of you safe every time you climb on your bikes. Thanks again for all your support. Fred

[Biff]

He and his family are in our prayers. I will also pass this on to the Christian Motorcyclist Assoc.

[MX154]

Has anyone made a post about Thomas on RiderDown.org?

[The_VIKING]

I just wanted to drop a note here and thank everyone who is keeping Thomas in their thought and prayers and for the unbelievable support this MX community has shown for Thomas. I was told about this forum and wanted to read the posts, I didn't make it through without getting tears in my eyes, so please forgive me if this sounds like I am rambling as this has been the worst weekend of my life. This is the latest I can share about Thomas's current condition. Thomas's body is strong and he is breathing on his own now, they have adjusted the respirator and he is controlling his own breathing. This is obviously a good sign. They have been monitoring the pressure in his head for the last two days, and those readings have looked good, and they may remove that sensor later today. The last CT scan which was done showed no change which means the bleeding in his brain stem has appeared to have stopped. Right now they are doing another scan to gage his progress and then will do an "EEG" (not sure if I got the letters right) but it will measure activity in his brain, first time this has been done. As of this morning he has not responded to the neurological tests that they continue to do. When they back off the medication that is keeping him sedated he hyperventilates so he is not ready for that yet. I have picked up on some conversation amongst the doctors and nurses here, they are saying his progress to this point is amazing for his injury. Any one that knows Thomas knows that you can't tell him he can't do something, because he will prove you wrong. Right now Thomas needs all of the prayers we can get for him, so keep praying and ask any one you know that believes in God to pray for a complete recovery. I not only pray for Thomas's recovery but for God to keep every one of you safe every time you climb on your bikes. Thanks again for all your support. Fred

Excellent news!!

Thnx for the post!!

Hope to get to meet you guys soon & hoping for a speedy recover for T-man!

[977 Dad]

We have just received the best news I could ever have imagined receiving. The Neurologist as told us that he is confident that Thomas will if not fully recover to 100% he will get very close! The road will be rough and it will be a long recovery, but he will be Thomas again! Please continue to pray. God is listening. Fred

[mx320]

That is awesome news! Congrats on the positive results.