02/16/09 -- My Father's Stroke

On Sunday morning, February 8, 2009, my father, Chuck Hileman, suffered a severe stroke.  He was take by ambulance to Bath County Community Hospital in Hot Springs, Va., and was transferred almost immediately to the stroke unit at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Va.   Several days later, he was moved to UVa/HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlottesville, where he is presently undergoing a program of intensive and comprehensive rehab which is expected to last several weeks.

In this blog, my sisters, my brother, and I will be following our father's recovery and rehabilitation.  We will also be sharing some of our thoughts about this exceptional man who fought in two wars, earned three degrees from his beloved University of Virginia, forged a decades long career during which he helped thousands of young Virginians obtain an education, and recently celebrated his 53rd wedding anniversary.