Wounded G.I., Bartram Trail grad making 'amazing' progress
Bartram Trail grad injured by suicide bomber overseas tells family 'I love you'
Posted: June 19, 2012
By SHELDON GARDNER
Bartram Trail grad injured by suicide bomber overseas tells family ‘I love you’
After spending two weeks in a coma, U.S. Army Lt. Ryan Timoney, 26, is awake. He is asking for food and drinks — power bars, apples, ice. He has said “I love you” to his family. He can write, and he is using a motorized wheelchair on his own.
“It’s amazing, it’s amazing what he’s doing,” his mother Diane Timoney said over the phone, her voice upbeat, her speech interspersed with laughter.
Her family has hope now, after two weeks of watching Ryan, a Bartram Trail High School graduate, in a hospital bed — silent, motionless, as he struggled to recover from injuries he suffered after a suicide bomber attacked him and 12 other soldiers in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. He is being treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Md.
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