Re: Good News Marissa
- From: "Squirrely" <squirrely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:35:24 -0800
Oh Dawn,
this is great news. I am so glad to hear it. I hope the healing keeps
happening and that miracles do occur.
--
Hugs, prayers, good thoughts,
Warm fuzzies, TLC, and Love
Squirrely Jo
> This is really good news I am sharing. Again thank you.
>
> Dawn
>
> Happy New Year to everyone and my apologies for not posting for a
> couple of nights. We had quite the houseful. New Years Eve was
> spent with 20 people in the family room with a catered dinner from
> Congressman Sweeny's office. Marissa spent about 4 hours of the day
> with us in there and then rested up to come in at about 11 pm and
> watch the ball drop on MTV to begin the new year. She laughed and
> talked and thoroughly enjoyed interacting with everyone. It was
> really awesome to see. Her trach has been downsized and she is able
> to speak with it now. I am pushing to get it downsized again maybe
> tomorrow, another couple of days with the four and then completely
> removed!!! She is drinking and eating jello. They are just waiting
> to see how she handles all of that before they shut off her tube
> feeding and then that tube can go away too!!
>
> She has been asking a lot of questions and finally today pin pointed
> me to tell her what happened to her. Of course that put her into
> asking me what happened to everyone else, but she couldn't remember
> who was there with her. All I have told her at this point is that
> everyone is just fighting for her to get better and that is also
> what she needs to be concentrating on. Col. Swengros spoke with her
> on the phone tonight, they had a really great conversation. She
> asked him about her driver and team leader although she could not
> remember the names. I had talked to him before and he knew how I
> was handling it. He told her that he would look into the paperwork
> for her and try to find the information to answer her questions. I
> will be contacting the psych Dr. tomorrow so she can help me with
> this as well. However... all in all, things are really going
> well. She started her PT the other day and once again totally
> amazed me. They told her to do two sets of five and after the first
> five, she looked right at them and did one more!!! Tomorrow she
> will be going in for a dressing check and change but on Wednesday
> she will be starting a strict regimen of PT and OT on a regular
> basis. So.. all in all my Christmas could not have been better and
> the start of the new year as well. Dan has been here and it's made
> all the world of difference having him here. I don't look forward
> to him going home on Wednesday at all. That is it for now...
> Looking forward to another good day tomorrow.
>
.
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