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Keep this man in your prayers!<\/p>\n

From Arkansas Catholic:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Joseph Chan, 48, a second-year theology student from Fort Smith, has a message for all who have been praying for his recovery following his March car wreck.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you all for your support and prayers,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is the people of God who inspire me to where I am now in my recovery.\u00a0Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Communicating via e-mail with Arkansas Catholic, Chan also said that he hopes to return to his studies at St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana and resume his march toward priestly ordination in the Diocese of Little Rock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope to be able to continue my seminary studies, realistically, in the spring of 2014,\u201d he said. \u201cI have slowly accepted God\u2019s will in my life. Prayer and hope and that sense of purpose, and the global power of prayer and love from all the faithful, inspire me to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chan suffered multiple injuries in a one-car crash outside of Rolla, Mo., March 10. The accident left him with multiple musculoskeletal fractures and traumatic injuries, traumatic brain injury, internal abdominal and pelvic hemorrhage, hearing loss\u00a0and visual changes. Since the accident, he has undergone more than 15 surgeries and procedures at Mercy Hospital St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Following the battery of operations, Chan has received treatment for nearly three months, gradually transitioning to skilled nursing care and rehabilitation at Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital St. Louis in Chesterfield, Mo.<\/p>\n

The latter phase entailed an intensive regimen of three-hour rehab sessions, six days a week. During this period, he relearned how to stand, walk with a walker and perform other functions as well as daily living activities. He completed the acute rehab regimen June 14 and now moves into outpatient self-rehabilitation exercise phase, something that may be a part of life from now on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say that we all rehabilitate for a lifetime since the brain is so dynamic and we learn everyday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Before joining the seminary in 2010, Chan was an internist trained in hospice and palliative care medicine. He was scheduled to be ordained a priest in 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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