LINCOLN, Neb. — Matthew Donovan continues to show improvement in his recovery from a Sept. 19 head injury he suffered in a college football game playing for Mayville State.
While the quarterback continues to pull out of an induced coma, he is receiving therapy at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals since being moved from Sanford Medical Center in Fargo a couple weeks ago.
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“We know Matt’s rehab is going to be a bumpy road,” his father, Terry, wrote Wednesday in his daily Facebook post, which has updated thousands since his son was hospitalized. “Some days will be better than others, and we’ll be right there with him through all of them. Yesterday was a really good day, and today he stacked another one.
“He did about as well as yesterday and maybe even a little better in parts of OT. He still gets really tired, but he kept trying to talk and put some words together. I was proud to watch him keep at it.”
On Tuesday, Donovan, who is from La Crescent, Minnesota, and played high school football at Kasson-Mantorville, had his tracheostomy removed after about a month.
Donovan is still unable to speak. Still, his father wrote on Tuesday that his son had one of his best days of th...