Donna's fine but she gave us a bit of a scare this am. The girl who a few days ago didn't want to sleep didn't want to wake up this am. What little body language she gave us made it sound like her head was hurting. We weren't too concerned at 8, a little concerned at 9, by 10 when she wasn't awake her Doctor sent her off for a CT scan. As I found out later one of the bad concerns for a traumatic brain injury is a disease that had the symptoms she was showing. By 11:30 when we were on our way back from the scan, she suddenly woke up and was as happy as could be. Ironically we ran into her doctor as he was looking at the preliminary results, a wide awake Donna strolled by, smiled and wished him good morning. The doctor gave us the all clear and we came to believe after more discussion that her nurse gave Donna some of her sleep medicine late. Her being the light weight she is, it had that extended sleepy effect. We were all happy. I really wasn't worried till they all seemed worried. Needless to say there are now standing orders for her to get that medicine pretty early.
The good attitude extended through the day with good sessions. Emily, Donna's Speech therapist is doing another swallow test tomorrow am and if well Donna's food options will be expanded. Alleluia as she doesn't like many of the options now. Lets hope she passes.
The highlight of my day was this evening when Donna had eaten all she wanted and since I hadn't had lunch or dinner I asked her if she wanted to go to the cafeteria. In the evening it is empty. I got some food and she and I sat at a table and had the closest thing to a meal together we've had in 2.5 months. It was awesome. We talked and I ate. The best part was at the end when I told her I had enough and she said she wanted to be sure I had enough, and encouraged me to bring it with me. I passed but it was not lost on me that for the first time in a long time, she was trying to take care of me. I loved it and we will have that date again. you can bet on it.
As I have said many times, sorry for the poor response to so many of you. My days run 7 am to 9:30 pm at the hospital and after Donna laundry, a late bite and a short Blog, thats all I can do but fall into bed. That being said I am good and doing just what I would choose. Hopefully that explains the lack of responses but all of your notes and support are so appreciated.
Here's looking forward to a good day tomorrow.
Bob
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