Continued recovery
Posted at approximately 6:30 PM PT
Well it’s been a very long week. Sean just keeps amazing the docs with his miraculous recovery. Yesterday I was at the end of my rope and Vince and I had pretty much decided that we would transfer Sean to [the old hospital’s] rehab today. Although Sean is making incredible progress, he is still in the stage where he lacks impulse control and will pull out tubes. He also will ask the same questions over and over and over again and it was trying my patience beyond it’s limits. It is impossible to explain because looking from the outside in, it would seem that I should be overjoyed and loving this. Well I am but it is hard to be in the thick of it alone. He is getting better and is expected to make a full recovery, but it is a long slow process. We have been told that when he comes home it will be very hard because his judgement will be bad for at least a year and the it will be not as bad but poor beyond that and its up to us to keep him safe.
So yesterday the calvary arrived. Vince came back and [the doctor here]authorized a one-on-one CNA [Certified Nursing Assistant] to be with Sean at all times. [The doctor here] and I had a long meeting and we went over everything that is going on with Sean and we decided that next Tuesday would be an appropriate target date to move Sean to [the old hospital’s] rehab. By then he should be tube free and he will get a follow up CT on Monday so they will know exactly where he’s at.
Today Sean was able to eat solid food. He gets clearer in his thinking every day, so now he keeps begging us to take him home. He has no IV so we are able to take him outside in his wheelchair and he loves the fresh air and sunshine. As hard as this is, God’s blessings are obvious. I keep thinking about the sacrifice that God made in giving us His one and only child to save us because His love for us was that huge. I think about that and then I think about how He is giving us our son back . I am awestruck and humbled.
Thank you all for your continued love and support. We are in week 8 and you have stuck by us every single day. I don’t know how we could do this without knowing that you are all with us in this journey. But God knows that and that is why he has given us the gift of all of you.
As always please keep praying because God is great and He is present!
Love,
Terri, Vince, Sean & Kiersten