Gabe Kennedy (Photos from Solea Kennedy’s GoFundMe page)
His family was able to take Gabe outside to the nearby Seattle Yacht Club to see fireworks on the 4th.
One positive after another.
As he makes the difficult battle back after a horrifying hit and run, Gabe Kennedy continues to improve and reach new positives.
The older brother of former Wolf football star Ben Haight and son of Coupeville Food Bank volunteer Solea Kennedy, Gabe was struck while skateboarding in Reno in early May.
He was in a coma and lost a leg, and the woman who slammed into him fled the scene, only to finally turn herself in to police several weeks later.
Now at the University of Washington Rehab Center, Kennedy has shown enough progress that doctors have set August 1 as a possible date for him being discharged.
In recent updates on her GoFundMe page, Solea talked about the steps Gabe has hit:
Yesterday, they removed Gabe’s trache, so now he is tube free!
He is doing well, feeling much better. The hole in his throat will close up on its own, probably in a few days!
The physicians agreed to start Gabe working with a prosthetic leg.
It is a long process and he will have to take it “one step at a time” since his left leg is still not able to bear weight due to the reduction surgeries that are still in the healing stage.
Gabe is making good progress, though.
He has taken advantage of every exercise opportunity to work on regaining use and strength in his hands and arms.
The left one still gives him a lot of trouble, but he is determined to push past it…
As he continues his fight, you can write to him at:
UW Rehab Medicine
Gabe Kennedy
Room 806
1959 NE Pacific St.
Box 356071
Seattle, WA 98195-6071
Or, consider helping the family out with the ever-spiraling medical expenses by jumping over to:
Coupeville Sports 