For the first time since her head injury, Courtney Dye was able to personally update her website. She wrote:
Hello everyone!
Thank you for your cards, goodies, flowers and emails! I’m sorry I can’t respond to them all, but please know I am getting and appreciating all of them.
Courtney Dye continues to make progress in her slow but steady journey to recover from her traumatic brain injury.
Her husband, Jason, posted on her website that Courtney’s memory is almost back to 100 percent and her speech improves daily.
Courtney Dye continues to show gradual improvement after the serious fall that left her in a coma for several weeks.
“Courtney is now able to eat real food (yum) and spent much of the weekend at the hotel with her family—movies and cards,” wrote Lendon Gray, Dye’s long-time trainer. “Does she ever have an appetite after a couple of months of yuck through a stomach tube!
A week after Courtney Dye first began talking again, she continues to make great progress in her rehabilitation from a devastating head injury that left her in a coma.
“Just got back from a wonderful afternoon with Courtney. She is totally alert, funny, serious and inquisitive. She asked about her horses, her students and various irrelevant things,” reported Lendon Gray, her longtime trainer and mentor.
The dressage community stepped up to help Courtney Dye after a riding accident left her in a coma, raising $17,000 at the Top Shelf Dressage Under the Stars competition at the Player’s Club & Restaurant. The money will be used to offset Dye’s medical expenses. Dye remains in a coma two weeks after the fall, although she is breathing on her own.
Courtney Dye remains in a coma, but she's now breathing almost completely on her own.
"Courtney is now off the ventilator except for two short periods during the day when she is connected to it again to be sure her lungs expand completely and that she gets a bit of extra oxygen. She opens her eyes slightly, but without recognition at this time," reported Lendon Gray.
Olympic dressage rider Courtney Dye is still in a coma as of today, March 8, after a riding accident that occurred while schooling on March 3, but she shows no sign of deteriorating further.
While the pressure in Courtney Dye's brain has subsided slightly overnight, after taking her off the sedation, she is in a coma reported Lendon Gray.
"The neurosurgeon says it could be long term—or she could wake up in five minutes. He was less optimistic today than last night," said Gray.
Dye, a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic dressage team, suffered an accident on March 3 while schooling a horse at home in Loxahatchee, Fla.
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