Mom was finally moved to an intermediate care room last night as she continues on the path to recovery.
The results of her cat scan from the other evening were good - confirmed no stroke. However, her speech is still slow and you can tell she's confused so they did an EEG today. She's having some difficulty answering some simple questions such as 2+2, her birthday, and what month it is. She does know that its 2013 but I think thats only because we told her (a few days ago though...). She did tell me on Friday that she doesn't understand...
"can't fathom 2013".
We went to see her today on our way home. The kids (Trey, Morgan, Liberty, Hailey, & Brooklyn) finally got to see her as well! We are hoping that it will help with her recovery. She did perk up just a bit but not like I had hoped. However...I still have hope as she had a pretty exhausting day with the EEG test. She looked tired!
She's not sleeping very well...she told dad a few days ago that she's scared to because she's afraid she won't wake up. She's not eating well either. She didn't like her lunch yesterday, and refused to eat breakfast or lunch today.
She seems like more and more of herself though...rolled her eyes at me when I told her to be nice to daddy. I'm thinking that she's getting tired if everyone talking to her like a child...but that's the way she responds to us...I just don't know! I kind of hope that some news comes back with the EEG from today so the doctors know what's going on!
She did start working with a physical therapist yesterday. She's able to wiggle fingers and toes but struggles to lift her arms and legs. She turns her head from side to side just fine and does respond to you when you ask her something. It takes a minute and she opens her eyes wide at you to focus but over all I do think she's slowly progressing.
My prayer today continues to be for her strength. I want her to eat so badly! That's the best way for her to gain her strength. I want dad to be able to stay patient with her as I couldn't even image how confused she still is. I also pray for dad because we are now all headed to our own "homes" to try and live life as normal and he will have the load of dealing with it all alone. He keeps saying, "I don't know why you girls keep worrying about me! I've done this before...". The problem is...this time it IS different. She's had issues and been in the hospital before...yes...but she's never been so confused and she's never been so disoriented. I just pray that things will get better soon...as I couldn't fathom doing care for her all alone.
Love you mommy & daddy!! Continued prayers for you both!!
Until next time...
The results of her cat scan from the other evening were good - confirmed no stroke. However, her speech is still slow and you can tell she's confused so they did an EEG today. She's having some difficulty answering some simple questions such as 2+2, her birthday, and what month it is. She does know that its 2013 but I think thats only because we told her (a few days ago though...). She did tell me on Friday that she doesn't understand...
"can't fathom 2013".
We went to see her today on our way home. The kids (Trey, Morgan, Liberty, Hailey, & Brooklyn) finally got to see her as well! We are hoping that it will help with her recovery. She did perk up just a bit but not like I had hoped. However...I still have hope as she had a pretty exhausting day with the EEG test. She looked tired!
She's not sleeping very well...she told dad a few days ago that she's scared to because she's afraid she won't wake up. She's not eating well either. She didn't like her lunch yesterday, and refused to eat breakfast or lunch today.
She seems like more and more of herself though...rolled her eyes at me when I told her to be nice to daddy. I'm thinking that she's getting tired if everyone talking to her like a child...but that's the way she responds to us...I just don't know! I kind of hope that some news comes back with the EEG from today so the doctors know what's going on!
She did start working with a physical therapist yesterday. She's able to wiggle fingers and toes but struggles to lift her arms and legs. She turns her head from side to side just fine and does respond to you when you ask her something. It takes a minute and she opens her eyes wide at you to focus but over all I do think she's slowly progressing.
My prayer today continues to be for her strength. I want her to eat so badly! That's the best way for her to gain her strength. I want dad to be able to stay patient with her as I couldn't even image how confused she still is. I also pray for dad because we are now all headed to our own "homes" to try and live life as normal and he will have the load of dealing with it all alone. He keeps saying, "I don't know why you girls keep worrying about me! I've done this before...". The problem is...this time it IS different. She's had issues and been in the hospital before...yes...but she's never been so confused and she's never been so disoriented. I just pray that things will get better soon...as I couldn't fathom doing care for her all alone.
Love you mommy & daddy!! Continued prayers for you both!!
Until next time...
Prayers for your mom! Thank you for keeping us informed of her progress, warms my heart that she's moving in the right direction! Thinking of ALL of you!
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