TRED BARTA PARALYZED..

bearmanric

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seen this on another site


"On his way to Alaska to tape his TV show, Tred Barta suffered a rare occurrence called a spinal stroke affecting his T2-T10 vertebrae. Since there are only 12 of these Thoracic bones, that’s a very large area. He is currently paralyzed from just below the chest down. Prognosis is way up in the air at the moment. Some medicos predict permanent paralysis while others have given him up to a 60-percent chance of at least partial recovery. His message to everyone is… Don’t take a single second of your life for granted."
 
I love Tred Barta... I wish him the best. I would love to shoot the longbow as well as him one day.

He will be in my prayers.

Joel
 
Thanks for posting that up Rick. All I can say is WOW...

I have the pleasure of knowing him and we have fished side by side with him on more than a few occasions out in the deep blue NE canyons. Love him or hate him, that man can FISH and HUNT like there is no tomorrow. A man's man in it's purest form...
He 'hams it up' for his show, but is a regular dude off camera. Not many men have done more to conserve & promote sportfishing than Tred, much to his credit...

VERY sad to learn of his tragic paralysis.
Get well soon, Tred...
 
Best wishes to Tred Barta from another old stickbow shooter. I've been there and it sucks!!! Don't stop fighting and don't overlook "traditional treatments" like massage and accupuncture. I hope you are not in CNS pain, it's worse than the paralysis /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
in this day and age...
when us older guys long for the days of heros
(regardless of tv and media)
he is a hunting fishing icon
get well fred

guero
 
Vail Valley's Tred Barta recovering from a stroke
Barta, who lives near Eagle, praises care he received locally

Scott N. Miller

EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado — Tred Barta had a trip to Alaska booked and ready to go when his leg went a little numb a couple of weeks ago. Now, he’s in a Denver hospital, waiting for a trip to a physical rehabilitation hospital.

Barta, host of “The Best and Worst of Tred Barta” show on the Versus cable TV channel, suffered a spinal stroke a couple of weeks ago. It started while he was horseback riding near his place on Salt Creek near Eagle. He credits quick care by local doctors for getting him to Denver quickly.

Since then, he’s been in a hospital room at Denver Health Medical Center, a room that now hold an elk skin blanket and one of Barta’s signature long bows.

“He’s fine from the belly button up,” Barta’s wife, Anni, said.

From the belly button down is a different story. Barta has feeling in his lower body, but can’t walk. He’s been accepted as a patient at Craig Hospital in Denver, one of the country’s leading facilities for helping people with spinal cord or brain injuries.

Before getting to Denver, though, Barta spent some quality time with some of the Vail Valley’s doctors.

He started at the Steadman Hawkins clinic in Vail, where Dr. Sanjitpal Gill suspected a pinched nerve and wrote a referral to Dr. Thomas Palic, a local chiropractor.

A couple of days later, though, Barta started having serious pain in his lower body. The pain was bad enough that Barta had to stop on Interstate 70. A Colorado State Patrol officer took him to Palic’s office.

After a couple of text messages between Palic and Gill, Palic drove Barta to the emergency room at Vail Valley Medical Center. An ambulance ride to Denver came later that day.

While Barta’s still facing an unknown path and uncertain recovery, he said he’s grateful for the locals who helped him. He’s also thankful for his relatively new neighbors up Salt Creek.

“Everybody’s called, neighbors are taking care of our horses and dogs,” Barta said. “I’ve gotten more than 200,000 e-mails, but the first flowers that came were from the Eagle Pharmacy.”

Barta raises a lot of money for children’s charities every year, but said he’s been bowled over by the response he’s received from friends, fans and neighbors.

“When you help an old lady across the street you don’t think anything about it,” he said. “When you’re the old lady, you do.”

While Barta’s down at the moment, his TV career’s going to continue. Versus is going to document his rehabilitation, and both Barta and Anni said they expect it to go well.

“With Tred, once he’s focused on something, there’s no stopping him,” Anni said.






What’s a spinal stroke?
The same way a cerebral stroke blocks blood to a portion of the brain, a spinal stroke occurs when blood stops flowing to a portion of the spinal cord. The initial symptoms can include numbness in the legs or feet.

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090520/NEWS/905209910/1078&ParentProfile=1062
 
thank you javafour. was tryin to find more on Tred. curt he was a wild funny Hunter going after game with a Longbow. He has shot Geese, Pheasant's Hog's with knive's. kinda funny to watch. get well Tred. Rick
 


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