Brent Koehn

Coon Rapids High School

Class of 1983

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Brent Koehn - Class of 1983 - Coon Rapids High School

First Name	Brent
Last Name	Koehn
Graduation Year	Class of 1983
Gender	Male
Current Location	Coon Rapids, Minnesota
Hometown	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Relationship Status	Single
About Me	laziness is an enemy... that can be overcome. Coma In 1994 I decided to go back to school to attempt to turn my artistic abilities into money. foresaking my accidental vocation of machining,I took on several part time jobs to pay my way through. I was doing good. I was on my my way home from one of these jobs in St.Paul, I was blind sided on 694. Careening of the highway at 70mph I hit a light pole head on. Broke scapula, pelvis, right upper and lower arm and in a coma for a week I woke unable to walk or talk,... head injury. When I awoke from the coma and was strong enough to communicate(about a month) I began therapy and discovered another broken bone the doctors missed, right wrist... already healed... improperly.I also discovered I was unable to lift my hand up, at the wrist, they said"You damaged the nerve, it will regenerate". Months passed, than a year no improvement. This was all my focus I even beefed up the apparatus designed to allow me to use my hand as the original design was weak. When enough time had passed for the nerve to heal, and it hadn't. I had exploratory surgery performed. I discovered when the Orthopedist set my upper arm he pinched the radial nerve between the broken bone and wrecked it. After all but resigning myself to wearing the cumbersome brace for life, a therapist said almost in passing "Oh they can fix that". MUSCLE TRANSFER;A muscle transfer is something doctors devised during WWI for so many radial nerve injuries. It is the transfering the tendons which worked my hands upward movement to the muscles that controlled the downward. It worked! for the first time in over two years I could again use my hand without the aid of a brace. Though I was never totally incapasitated, I could now begin to really forget "the crash" even now writing this is difficult... to remember that is. If I wrote all that surrounded this short span in my life it wouldn't began to fit in this...(read more)