Dr. Roberts Quotations

Basically, every bodily function was not functioning when he arrived, and I think it's dramatic that all systems are go, that he's recovered to such an extent. He's made a remarkable recovery and far exceeded my expectations.

He is moving and responding to stimuli and the things that we're doing. It means that he has brain function, central nervous system function if he responds to stimuli. That's good.

He is more awake, and is able to chew and swallow soft foods. But he is still not able to speak with us.

Having been laying still for so many hours and being poorly hydrated for that period of time has resulted in some kidney dysfunction. We assume that will be a temporary phenomenon while the kidneys recover.

He responds to stimuli and that's good. He's still critically ill, in intensive care, he suffered a collapsed lung.

He was able to interact a little bit with us. I think that all of that is very, very positive.

I think youth always helps you. Youth always has its advantages.

I think time will tell to what extent he recovers from this.

I think Randy is a fantastic success story. He exceeded my personal expectations for recovery.

We don't expect to put him in the chamber and have him open his eyes and start talking to us.

We are now recognizing that it involves his heart, his liver, the kidneys. And so multiple organs are involved, and so he is in critical shape.

Was he deprived of oxygen for a sufficiently long period of time? We don't know that. That is something that time will tell.

Perhaps Randy -- and I am completely speculating -- but perhaps he had more oxygen available to him than those who succumbed. I can't explain why or how, but that would be a logical explanation for why he did better.

Randy has come through an unprecedented ordeal and continues to improve.

Still critically ill. He's in our intensive care unit. He suffered some collapse of one of his lungs.

In most respects, we think he's making progress.

I'm hopeful that he can make a recovery.

In the past few hours, I'm happy to report there's been some improvements.

It has been very difficult to allow him to awake, although that is our hope today.

He suffered some collapse of one of his lungs. And we're trying to reopen that and there's good progress there.

I do expect, if the trend continues, that he will improve.