Stacy was released today to go to an appartment (she was in a semi-intensice care room, and now will be in a regular appartment), and will start the physic terapy.
Thanks joanamss. So Stacy has been released from the hospital and will now be staying in an apartment in Brazil?
Will Stacy be staying in Brazil long-term or will she be returning to USA to her family for recovery?
Thanks joanamss. So Stacy has been released from the hospital and will now be staying in an apartment in Brazil?
Will Stacy be staying in Brazil long-term or will she be returning to USA to her family for recovery?
No, she is still in hospital, but in a regular appartment, no longer in a intesive care area....she was still before in a semi-intensive room. Now she is in a regular one, so she have more "freedom" we can put it like that..hehe
For example, she can access internet now! 
Actually she wrote yesterday in her facebook! 
and now she is intesiving the physical therapy...for the athlete area. But her doctors didnt say yet when she will be released from the hospital.
Ah, I understand now. Thanks! What did Stacy write?
Ah, I understand now. Thanks! What did Stacy write?
Acording to Joycinha....she wrote: "Feeling Better....A few bumbs and bruises, a shaved head and some scratched but I am doin well. Stay in touch"
Stacy just apeared in tv!
She gave her first interview since the accident! She looks fine. She spoke in portuguese. She tahnked everyone for the support, she said she love Brasil and she hope next year she can have the gold medal with Volei Futuro (she was wearing the bronze medal that Volei Futuro won this year).
Tomorrow her doctors will have a reunion to decide when she will get the release from the hospital.
Ill try to find the video of the interview to put it here!
HEre, there are some of her words in the interivew and pics - http://globoesporte.globo.com/…l.html?utm_source=Twitter
Pics of her exercises in the hospital
Her words: "Now Im fine. I think about all the people and kids that I've talked one day. Kids, fans, I wanna say thank you. I love Brasil very much."
About Volei Futuro bronze medal: "It is the first time Vôlei Futuro win this kind of medal color, but I hope that, next year, we will another. The gold, yeah!"
She also talked about the agony of not being able to play in the end of superleague: "I'm part of this team, I'm Vôlei Futuro. I was bad, but I was with the team. So, I won. Its hard you know. I really wanted to play. I always want to win, and the will to win was really big. Im very happy for Osasco and Rio arriving in final cause are two very strong teams, but I wanted to play that decision."
When asked if she is going to come back playing, she said: "Lets hope, lets hope!"
The video of the interview - 
Nice video. 
She looks very healthy. 
Yes, indeed! She speaks pretty much what I wrote above (it was the written report about this video..hehe)
today dovtors decide when she elave hospital, I hope its soon, so she can be back playing soon too!
Stacy will get released from hospital tomorrow!!!!:)
She will travel same day to US and I think monday she will meet McCutcheon!
Stacy will get released from hospital tomorrow!!!!:)
She will travel same day to US and I think monday she will meet McCutcheon!
Stacy left the hospital!!! 
QuoteDisplay MoreStacy Sykora released from hospital
Twenty-four days after the accident, libero of Volei Futuro is liberated by doctors, recovered after suffering head trauma
Stacy Sykora gets discharged from the hospital
(Photo: Mariana Maziero / Globoesporte.com)
The american Stacy Sykora was released from the Syrian-Lebanese hospital early on friday. There are 24 days she was hospitalized after suffering head trauma, resulting from the accident with the bus of the Volei Futuro team.
The bus toppled on April 12, when he was on the way to gym Jose Liberatti in Osasco, to dispute the first game of the Superliga semifinals. The team lost the series, and then guaranteed the bronze by defeating the Pinheiros.
Stacy was hospitalized for a week in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and then transferred to a room. He started doing two daily sessions of physiotherapy. On friday, she spoke to the report of SporTV and spoke of the happiness for having been discharged.
- I am relieved to leave the hospital. They were hard days. One day I was very ill, unable to do anything, eat, talk. Now I'm great. In such a short time I'm perfect. It's life - said Stacy.
Before leaving the hospital, the player takes a coffee
(Photo: Mariana Maziero / Globoesporte.com)
I hope she comes back playing as soon as possible.
Interview with Stacy.
QuoteDisplay MoreStacy, after counting the days of 'dead: 'Never be afraid to not play anymore'
In an exclusive interview, libero says how was your recovery. In hospital, she got Calendar and highlighted the period in a coma with the word 'dead'
Past 24 days, the libero of Volei Futuro, Stacy Sykora, was very close to death. But it would be impossible to imagine something like that to looking at her today. Smiling and fully recovered from her accident last April 12, she said that never thought that would never play because of to any sequel.
The bus that was carrying Stacy and the rest of the team for a first game of the Superliga semifinals in Osasco, fell. Other players got hurt, but only Stacy was seriously injured. She had a cut on his head and traumatic brain injury, and the doctors' prognosis was the first 90 days of hospitalization. At first, nobody could guarantee that the athlete return to play volleyball.
- I was very sick, my body was different. I could not eat, could not do anything, did not speak, could not walk. I do not understand anything.
The recovery surprised the doctors. In just 15 days the player was fine.
- I do not know what happened. But I never was afraid that would not play, I always knew he would play again. I never was afraid that things did not work out. Can I talk I'll play again - he said.
Despite the agony that she spent in the last month, Stacy deal very well with the situation. He says that problems like this are part of life.
- I always say that this is life. I was going to Osasco and now I'm here, leaving the hospital. That's life, does not plan much. I think thanks to God, I'm here, plain, whole. There never know what will happen the next day.
The only thing that still bothers the american libero is hairstyle. Because of the cut of approximately 10cm in his head, Stacy lost a thick strand of hair.
- I had so much hair and now look at this .... (shows a cut) I have nothing! It will take ten years to grow it all again. I am very ugly - the player jokes.
The libero has returned to the United States on Friday and will present at U.S. team next week. She will conduct tests and training to see if he can play a tournament in Switzerland in june.
- I spoke with my american coach. First thing, they want to see me, see how I am, and then do what I can, because in a month I was doing nothing, I need to touch the ball, gym, many things. Can not say anything because I do not know how I am with the ball inside the court, I do not know anything, I'll with the head at zero, I'm ready to talk about all the things that I have to do - she said confidently.
So that Stacy feel at home in this period of rehabilitation on the hospital, she received a huge calendar with your photo printed. In it, the libero highlighted the days he was in a coma with the word "dead".
She marked the entire period she spent in hospital and also highlighted the day April 24th, the day he was discharged from the hospital, followed by the word "life".The calendar also had a huge circle, marking the day of her return to Brazil. The return will be on November 21, according to the mark, after all commitments with the U.S. team.
Stacy not question the fact that she was the only seriously injured in the accident.
- I always think that my life is short. I always speak it. So I'm living each day well.
Yesterday, NY Times released a report over Stacy, so we can know a bit more how she is doing...
We hope we can see her inside court on oficial game again someday! FORÇA STACY!
Volleyball Star Is on the Path to Recovery
By The Association Press
Published: July 23, 2011
Stacy Sykora does not remember the rainy April night when the bus carrying her Vôlei Futuro volleyball team overturned just yards from the gym where the women were to play.
Brazilian news reports from the accident scene just outside São Paulo said the three-time United States Olympian did not appear seriously injured. Though Sykora briefly passed out, she had only a small cut on her face and it looked as if she was being taken to the hospital merely as a precaution.
That outlook quickly changed.
By the time the ambulance reached the Sírio-Libanês Hospital, Sykora’s breathing had become labored and she had slipped into critical condition. She was admitted and doctors determined she had a serious head injury, with bleeding and swelling on the left side of her brain. The trauma put her in intensive care for a week and has cast doubt on whether she will be able to compete at the 2012 London Olympics.
“I am doing better each and every day,” said Sykora, now in Southern California continuing her rehabilitation. “I am excited to be alive. I am excited that I am getting stronger physically and mentally, but I know there is still a lot of work to be done.”
Sykora’s mother and sister flew to Brazil to be with her, and news of her plight spread quickly in the tight-knit international volleyball community. Fans on Twitter and Facebook added “Força Stacy” in their posts about her, using the Portuguese word for strength.
It was an especially tense time for her fellow national team players. The setter Lindsey Berg wrote SYKO on her taped fingers while playing professionally in Italy, and the outside hitter Logan Tom rushed to Sykora’s side.
“I obviously did not know anything about it during the process because I was just trying to get myself together,” Sykora said. “Afterwards, I heard great stories. People told me how my experience affected them, how it had a positive effect on them and how much positive support I had to get better, and soon.”
Berg learned of the April 12 accident on the Internet. But it was the middle of the night in Italy and she could not get details from her agent — who is also Sykora’s. Information about her teammate’s condition was further delayed while Brazilian officials contacted Sykora’s family.
“It was awful,” Berg said. “Really scary.”
Sykora was captured by a Brazilian television crew smiling and laughing in a rehabilitation center about three weeks after the accident. Her doctors there, who said there was no sign of permanent brain damage, credited her fitness as an athlete for speeding her recovery.
She was discharged from the hospital on May 6.
Sykora, a 5-foot-10 libero, or defensive specialist, was a three-sport athlete at Texas A&M, competing in volleyball, track and basketball. She joined the national team in 1999 and played for the United States at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, helping the American women win the silver medal at the Beijing Games.
Like most elite volleyball players, the 34-year-old Sykora has also played on professional teams overseas to make a living.
She continues to work with the national team at its training facility in Anaheim, Calif., and responded to questions via e-mail with the help of a team trainer.
“I am spending three days a week at the hospital working on specific brain-injury deficits (for example, some of the minor issues I am having with my vision, cognitive memory and so on),” she wrote. “The other days of the week I am with my team in Anaheim and working with the sports medicine staff here. All in all I am getting the gamut of therapy and can tell it is helping every day! I remain patient and optimistic, but as you can imagine as an Olympian, it is hard to be patient and away from the sport that you love so much.”
Berg said Sykora was an inspiration to her teammates.
“Even now, she’s with us every day even though she can’t play — and it’s so frustrating to her — but she’s still here with us every day in the gym. And I think that just shows who she really is,” Berg said. “She’s someone I couldn’t imagine not having in my life. She’s all around an incredible person.”
Doug Beal, the USA Volleyball chief executive, released a statement supporting Sykora, calling her “an iconic member” of the national team and “a key member of the team as it competes to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games.”
It is too early to tell whether Sykora will be able to play as her team makes the final push to qualify for next year’s London Olympics, and indeed, right now it is the least of her concerns. But an eventual return to the sport she loves remains a key goal.
Thanks Joana for this report.
I had read before a small one from Bruno Voloch saying some of those things but now it makes much more sense.
In fact I can now understand why Volei Futuro hired Vere. At first I thought she would join the team only for Paulista but I think they hired her in case they can't count with Stacy.
Força Stacy.
Berg XD