Sculptor Glenna Goodacre hospitalized with head injury

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Sculptor Glenna Goodacre hospitalized with head injury (http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/mar/20/sculptor-glenna-goodacre-hospitalized-head-injury/)

March 20, 2007 - SANTA FE — Sculptor Glenna Goodacre, who created the sculpture of three American nurses and a wounded soldier at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was in critical condition today at St. Vincent Medical Center after suffering a head injury. ......

Goodacre's bronze nurses sculpture, added to the Vietnam memorial in 1993, depicts a nurse seated on sandbags, cradling the soldier's head. Another nurse is standing nearby, looking into the distance; the third is kneeling.

"Men and women who were in Vietnam say to me, `That is me, that is how I felt,' " Goodacre told the crowd that came to the sculpture's dedication.

Goodacre also designed the image of the young Sacagawea on the dollar coins that went into circulation in 2000.

She also created a sculpture of former President Reagan, cowboy hat in hand with dusty boots and denim jacket, after a horseback ride. Goodacre said she broke with tradition, and did not give the 7-foot-6 inch bronze of the former president a stoic expression or dress him in a business suit.

Castings of the sculpture are at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.....

This is the link to her website. Glenna Goodacre (http://www.glennagoodacre.com/)

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Here's a prayer for her recovery.

Her works are often quite exciting having a tension and potential energy that bespeaks the height of our craft.

May she yet create more to inspire and delight.

[Merlion]

She remains in critical condition, in a comatose state.

Sculptor hospitalized with head injury (http://www.krqe.com/expanded.asp?ID=20499)

3/21/2007 - Source: AP

SANTA FE -- Sculptor Glenna Goodacre remains in critical condition at St. Vincent Medical Center in Santa Fe after suffering a head injury.

Her husband, attorney C.L. Mike Schmidt, says he's been on pins and needles since taking her to the hospital last week after she told him something was wrong with her.

After reviewing an M-R-I, doctors determined that she had a massive head injury. She had brain surgery and remains in a comatose state. ....

[Merlion]

Good news.

Sculptor Glenna Goodacre regains consciousness (http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/mar/27/sculptor-glenna-goodacre-regains-consciousness/)

SANTA FE — Sculptor Glenna Goodacre regained consciousness Monday, two weeks after suffering a head injury at her Santa Fe home.

Goodacre remained hospitalized at St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, and her husband, C.L. "Mike" Schmidt, wrote on a Web site Tuesday that she "is looking great this morning, but is really tired."

He said her family was so excited about her coming to that everyone visited and tired her out. Visits were being kept down Tuesday "so she can recapture her strength and vibrance and continue to heal.

"The left side of her body is extremely mobile and active, but we are not seeing the same on the right side," he wrote. "We hope this will return as the injured left side of her brain continues to diminish the swelling."....

[Merlion]

It is two months, and she is still hospitalized.

Sculptor Goodacre still hospitalized (http://www.krqe.com/expanded.asp?ID=21507)

4/21/07, SANTA FE -- Sculptor Glenda Goodacre, who suffered a head injury at her Santa Fe home, is to undergo an operation that will help drain built-up fluid in her brain, according to her husband who's been reporting on her recovery on a Web site.....