We’re coming up on a full week of awareness and interaction. I got to the hospital this afternoon and found Mary Elizabeth sound asleep. I’ve seen this before and usually she’s very hard to wake up and I wind up sitting quietly while she sleeps. But this afternoon, a few minutes later she opened her…
Mary Elizabeth is on her third day of doing better. I’ve learned the hard way not to look for trends, but I’m just enjoying her responsiveness and awareness. I spent a few hours with Mary Elizabeth this evening, telling her stories about the kids and reminiscing about “old times.” While she can’t respond too much,…
Today was a beautiful day in London, made more so by the rain-soaked day that preceded it. The beauty of my flat is that it is walking distance both to the hospital as well as to the office. So I had enough time this morning to walk to work. As I passed St. Anne’s Limehouse I…
As much as I like to be positive and report progress, today was not one of those days. I’ve had issues with my lower back since 1986, and I was just saying to Ellinor that I was amazed that it hasn’t troubled me in the last 10 weeks, since it’s often triggered by stress. Of…
For once, we missed the bad weather on Long Island. I saw a few stray snowflakes this morning, but that was it. Instead, while driving around this morning I saw a few brave bands of migrating robins – the so-called harbingers of spring. So despite the cold, leafless winter weather – the spring is not…
Despite the fact that Mary Elizabeth’s infection seems to be going away, I’ve been troubled by her lack of responsiveness. That fact, combined with increasing difficulties with sleep is leaving me a little ragged around the edges. So when I left the office today – later than I would have liked – I wasn’t exactly feeling…
Well, Mary Elizabeth finally had her surgery this afternoon. After all that delaying, it was pretty anticlimactic – just a relocation of the EVD, and an all-new haircut. After a lovely dinner last night with Peter, an old friend from high school who’s visiting London from Barcelona, I had a long, difficult day today. Getting back…
That title sounds like a philosophy course but perhaps I’m feeling philosophical because I had dinner tonight with Michael, who’s writing a paper right now on John Locke. At any rate, “knowing and not knowing ” pretty much sums up my life right now. It struck me today that each time I walk up the 200-year old steps…
Today was another quiet day for Mary Elizabeth. Although the nurses said she was responsive earlier in the day, I wasn’t able to get any reaction from her. She was far from sleepy however, spending most of the time I was there moving her left arm around, and attempting to free herself from some of the…
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