Yes pls have Zilch arrive at our hospital room and create a gourmet meal out of ingredients found in the cafeteria using only medical equipment as cooking equipment.Sno wrote:We’re pulling for you and the little, buddy. Take care of yourself and your family. Can we take care of arranging a dinner delivery? House cleaning service? Lean on us.Calvinball wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:28 pm No diagnosis yet, some tests have come back and are negative.
It’s hard to gauge her level of impairment cause she’s always so exhausted. Motor function, speech, eating, etc I think they all take effort so she’s avoiding them all for the most part. We have seen glimpses though. She was able to follow my verbal command and put Mr Potato Head’s nose in, on the first shot too which is impressive cause those are not large pegs and holes.
Comprehension is there. Communication from her is mostly head nods/shakes plus “mmhmm” or “uh uh.” But, we have heard some full sentences from her here and there. “I want to see Grant.” “I want to get back in bed.” So that’s promising.
Muscle weakness though, she’s definitely weak even on her functional side. She has made some movements on her left side but it is mostly just lying there. PT was by today talking about taping her shoulder so that gravity doesn’t separate the joint. We have range-of-motion exercises we do with her, and we’ve both felt some muscle contractions fighting us on those once or twice.
The brain bleeds were in white matter, which is connective tissue between the processing units of the brain, so think the jumble of cables behind your desk connecting the various components of your computer. So there was definitely cell death and going to be scar tissue, I think it will just take time to see how impactful that is, and time to make a recovery from it.
She is medically stable now and cleared to go to the inpatient rehab part of the hospital, just need the insurance piece to be completed and a bed to open up.
I told her that it will start to be less about poking and prodding and more about eating chocolate ice cream and playing soon, that got a smile.
Still some struggles though, sleep has been tough to come by for a few reasons, which of course impacts everything.
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