Day 26 I GENERALLY TYPE THESE POSTS OUT THE NIGHT BEFORE IN WORD PERFECT AND TRANSFER THEM TO FACEBOOK. BUT I HAD TO ADD THIS PRIOR TO POSTING THIS ENTRY. I DID NOT WANT TO ADD THIS AT THE BOTTOM BUT RATHER THE TOP. *I received a phone call last night at 10:30 PM from Magee. I was told that Renee was in the bathroom with a hospital aide. I was also told that she had fallen off the toilet and landed on her face. She had some cuts to her nose and scrapes to her upper lip. I met her at Jefferson Hospital right away for a precautionary cat scan. The cat scan came back clean and she was okay. Although I will not say much about this now I will say this. My wife did not lose her mind. She knows what is going on around her. She knows what she sees and I believe what she tells me. I will have answers on Tuesday with the version my wife told me and the version that was told by the aide. Due to the holiday weekend answers will not be made available until then. My main concern was that Renee was alright, which she is. My next concern will be to find out why and how this happened as when she is using the bathroom she is under constant supervision due to being a fall risk.* Hard sometimes to look at the one you love so much to struggle and work hard at regaining something they once had and did with ease. Sometimes I wish I could press a button and either fast forward six months to a year or just press a button and switch places. To make someone work so hard to get something back when this person has worked hard their entire life sometimes is very frustrating to say the least. Before I go into her progress today there was a point that Renee felt no one cared that she was there. She told me that she wanted to go home and needed to work harder but she just felt that no one knew what it was like to be her and that no one really cared. I showed her all the cards on the wall and told her how much people cared. She did not know about the prayer page and I had not planned on telling her until she came home so that she could read the entries. I did not make her aware of the page because I was not sure how she would initially react due to being so private and her not knowing I have documented every day. I knew at this point she needed to know there was more than one person that cared, there was an army of people that cared. I told her our friend Judy had started a prayer page the day after her surgery. I told her the page had almost hit 1000 likes and that both of us combined did not even know that many people. She still was facing away from me as I was telling her this. I told her that over 1000 people had prayed for her daily and these people and the power of prayer carried us to where we where today. People that did not even know us cared so much for the two of us to get back to each other. To be able to shower each other with love and continue on with life. She still is having a very difficult time with double vision and I knew she could not read all the post and entries but I had to read her one. The entry I chose to read her was the entry titled “The Letter”. To be honest I started to read it and as I read it I started to break down. It was hard getting through the post that I had made and reading the letter she had written me was even harder. As I was reading the post she had turned and faced me and as I finished the entry I read her every comment under it. I told her how many likes the post had gotten and that people follow her progress and are pulling for her every day. I told her she is not in this alone and she has so many people pushing and praying for her she will never be alone. After I read the post and spoke to her I held her for some time, I did not want to let go. I wanted to embrace her forever and at that moment take away and pain, frustration and disappointment I could. Her morning session with speech went well and we actually went to the 6th floor outside in the garden area and had her session. It was very calming and Renee did very well talking about her past how things where in her life. The speech therapist had her recounting everything she could. Amazing how subtle the therapist could be but could get so much out of her. After her session we went back to her room and had lunch. Although she did not eat much lunch she was able to take a scheduled nap before her next session of speech that was at 2:30. Before her nap I was able to soak her nails and trim them. I know version of a manicure was not like a spa but Renee is a very simple person and I think she enjoyed it. The second session of speech took place and that session was right at bedside. The therapist had no problem doing the session this way because of the amount of activity she said goes on in the brain during an injury. She said 15 minutes of stimulation is a lot of work and tires many out in this situation. After the session was over she was allowed to take a nap until 3 PM because physical therapy was up next. During physical therapy she worked on core strength again. Worked on using a large pillar type object to balance rest her arms on and then push herself up to stand and straighten herself out. This did take a lot of effort. The therapist also worked on her lying on her back and raising her rear end up off the bed several times. They worked on stretching her back and other muscles. Also building her fine motor skills they had Renee and I toss a beach ball back and forth about four feet apart. Small tasks that we take advantage of every day are now being used to teach the most smallest of movements. Renee never complained and after an hour of physical therapy the session ended. Dinner and then bed after a long day. Labor day weekend and hard to believe the time has come and gone this fast. There is no fast forward button in this journey, only one foot step at a time. Each step we will take together.
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:44:55 +0000
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