Thursday, November 3, 2011

Fully awake and present (day 9)

Everyone,

Good news, Nancy is improving today! She is fully awake and present, saying things like "I love you" and "thank you" to me and her doctors. She can't talk yet, because of the tracheostomy, but she is trying to communicate. We're getting an alphabet board, so I can figure out what she wants to say.

Her strength is better, she can move her fingers and toes and arms and legs better. She is breathing on her own since about 9am. Also, her kidneys seem to be coming back, and she's starting to make urine again.

There is a gland in her neck that has gotten infected on one side, making her look like a chipmunk, but the doctors are not particularly worried about it.

She's not out of the woods yet, but her odds are a lot better. I can't tell you how relieved I feel. There are a bunch of doctors who've come by to check her out, her neurosurgeons, kidney specialist, the ICU docs, and they are all smiling. We've been looking into each other's eyes and smiling a lot, and I feel all goofy with relief. I'm reading your emails to her, and have been telling her all that has been happening to her. Her memory of the last few days seems pretty hazy, which is probably just as well.

Keep the "cards and letters" coming, and I'll read them to her. Love,

-tdc

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