I just recieved word that Derek is fiaghting back and seems to be winning!!!! He responded to his mother today and when instructed to follow a hand in front of him he did. Not only that he cried when he recognized his Mom and is moving his arm ( he tried to rip out the ventilator!)

I want to thank you all who asked the big guy to bring this young man back to his Mom. This is fabulous news,

I guess, I should say I know from first hand experience, that there is something to prayer, sending good thoughts and positive energy.

Thank you all Again and I will keep you updated! You folks proved that once again, this little family of ours here at S-B.com is something very special!!! Bless you all.:jump:

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This is a fanstastic start for a recovery. Best sincere wishes!

I have been reading about Derek and hearing about him on the radio. Keeping my hope going for him :btu:

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Hope all continues on the same path.

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That's great news, I sent some more good thoughts out.

That is just great Flap, just great. Continued P+T.

Great news, glad to hear it

What great news!! Lets hope for a full recovery soon, keep fighting Derek.

fight hard....
we want you to live.....

more energy comin your way...:musc:

all right!!!! go derek!!!!!!:musc:

Great News, Hope all goes Well.

That is Great News.. Here is wishing for some more! :kewl:

I'll keep up the the T & P

Well that is my good news of the day.
I will say more prayers so he keeps on improving.

:)

WOW!

awsome! wouldnt want to get on his bad side in a bar... sounds like a real fighter ;)

good for you derek!

That's the best thing I heard in a long time. :happy: hang in there Derek.

Just said some more prayers and sending out positive thoughts for a full recovery :uhuh:

Go Derek go! Come back home!

Great News Flaptail!

More prayers and good thoughts sent...Greatest News YTD.

That is excellent news! I hope that everything works out for Derek and his family.

Great news! Keep it coming!:jump:

Thank the good lord for this great miracle... I truly hope all goes well for him and his family. Thoughts and Prayers for a speedy and healthy recovery.

Thats the fighting "Bulldog spirit" :musc:

That's GREAT, the best of luck Derek, keep hanging in there.

Steve, that is very encouraging news for sure :D
Glad to hear it. We are all pulling for him.
T&P's to Derek and his family.

that is PISSAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
more prayers just sent Steve

:)

Keep fighting Derek! Wonderfu news!

Prayer works

That is great - hope and prayers for a speedy full recovery!

Wonderful news. All the best to him!

Great news.

Our T&Ps are with Derek and his family, we will continue to think of him in a positive light.

Great news, thoughts and prayers are with all.

Totally awesome to hear, prayer is a powerful thing and more are on the way for a speedy recovery. Hang tuff Derek, we are all pulling for ya!!!:kewl:

I read in the paper yesterday that he said to his mother that he wanted to go home :kewl:
Glad to see things are looking up for the man.
Oh and also see he is a member of the Middleboro Cobras semi-pro football team :btu:

fighting back baby :jump:
vb

Thoughts and prayers are still with him, that is awesome, gave me chills

Great news. Never give up.

He is now off the ventilator, talking, no memory loss but will have to learn to walk all over again ( possibly no more football!) but hey, his poarents will take that anyday.

It was a miracle Gentlemen, plain and simple!

And most of all, for his parents may I :thanks: all!!!

Great news. I didn't want to jump the gun while he was still touch and go, but it now seems like he's out of the woods.

Derek's a fighter. I wouldn't take odds against him playing football again.

Just over a week ago, Scott Ashworth was picking out a cemetery plot for his only son, wondering how many weeks or years he’d be on life support as the death grip of EEE locked his body in a coma.

Turns out Derek Ashworth, a 23-year-old semi-pro football player, is as strong off the field as he is on.
In a stunning turn of events, Derek, who contracted Eastern equine encephalitis from a mosquito bite, has awakened from a six-day coma.
“As bad as he had it, typically they don’t do well. But doctors also said ‘Don’t ever give up hope. There’s always a chance for a miracle.’ If I didn’t believe in him before, we do now,” said Scott Ashworth, the Rochester fire chief.


His son walked 10 steps on Wednesday, ate pureed chicken and mashed potatoes and started talking and asking questions about the past 14 days of his hospitalization.
Yesterday, in his fifth-floor Boston Medical Center room, the wide receiver wore his Middleboro Cobras jersey and clutched a football. He sat in his wheelchair and talked on a cell phone as his girlfriend and parents looked on.

The whole story here: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=154398

Keep going Derek!

That is the greatest of news. :D and "Thank You" Flap for caring enough to ask for P+T. :btu:

It was great seeing derek sitting up in bed with the football in his hands.