As I mentioned in my earlier post from today, I had an encouraging meeting this morning with the medical team. When I got to the hospital at 10:00 this morning for the meeting, Mary Elizabeth was out of bed and seated in a chair. She was alert and looking around. I fished her glasses out…
Mary Elizabeth was sleeping when I arrived this evening after work, and slept right through my visit. I learned from the nurses that she was “in the chair” for four hours this afternoon, and likely had visits from the physios and the occupods. That, combined with the fact that she had a fenestrated tracheostomy tube in…
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…
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…
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