Teen thrown from motorcycle likely to be in coma for a year
A Lynnwood girl injured in a motorcycle crash this week in Edmonds remains in each induced coma at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and likely won’t come public of it instead of at least a year, her family said Friday.
Melanie Thielman
Police said the crash happened about 10 p.m. in the 9000 block of Olympic View Drive.
Melanie was riding on the back of a motorcycle through a 23-year-old man at the time that he crashed into a benefit pole, said Edmonds police Sgt. Don Anderson.
Both were wearing helmets.
She was “thrown straight up in the air, like a missile, and came straight down,” said Calvin Thielman, Melanie’s father.
Melanie and the man were transported to Harborview. She is in intensive care and was listed in serious grade Friday morning, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
No condition or information was take advantage of for the furnish with men. Police did not release his name, and Thielman declared he didn’t understand who he was.
Thielman, a single engender, said doctors put his daughter her in a coma “to relax the brain” and stabilize a blood clot in her brain. Her long-term odds for retrieval remain unclear, he said.
“Last darkness they told me there’s a strong chance of her being in a coma for 12 to 18 months,” Thielman said. “The best scenario is if she wakes up.”
Thielman said he and his clan have been leaning on the bear up of friends who come to see her. “There have been droves and droves of people, about 100 a lifetime,” he declared. “She’s very well-loved.”
