Bought a small cd player for dannys room so he can listen to music, and a large calendar that can help orient him to day, month, season etc. Cant wait to see him again!
Tryin 2 catch up missed schoolwork. Homework time isnt the same without you hunny. Your patience n devotion is sorely missed by nick and i.
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Been awake since 330am. Cant get back 2 sleep. Guess ill just lie here n talk 2 God...
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Danny is talking. I mean up a storm! And he seems pretty with it! Im so excited! It was like a lightbulb turned on!
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Monday morning I missed PT but I was able to attend and help with occupational therapy. They tried doing several things with Danny. As he sat in the wheelchair in the gym they tried to get him to catch a big ball, but he wouldn't even put out his hands. He slumped and hung his head. They shouted his name and for him to look at them. Nope. The therapist said to me, "He always looks when you call him. Say his name and tell him to look at me." I did so, and he looked straight at me. I told him to look at Janna. This time he made an effort to put his hands out and she kinda tossed/handed him the ball, followed by praise. He was able to hold the ball and when she told him to toss it he let it roll out of his hands. Then she held different color rings up and asked him to pick the color she named. He wouldn't do that, nor even look at them, even when I told him too. She handed him a magazine with female models in it. Surely this I thought would get his attention. Nope. He was exhausted. He was put back to bed and fell asleep.
Later in the early evening Danny's mom and her friend Kevin came to visit. Kevin put his hand out and introduced himself to Danny (it was the first Danny had seen him awake) and Danny reached out and shook his hand. Then I updated Susie his mom on the latest info and went to the cafeteria to give them time to visit. As I was eating I was thinking about a conversation on the phone with Danny's cousin Deanne. She said that Harold told her as well that Danny was talking, and that he told her he and Danny were having "guy talk". She said she didn't want to say Harold was exaggerating, or worse, making it up, but she just found it too much too believe was true. I had told her Harold didn't strike me as someone who would make it up...but she was right...it WAS hard to believe. After all, Danny wasn't speaking to any of us and just watched us.
I went back up to the room and we all sat talking for an hour or so. I sat on the bed with Danny and helped him work the buttons on the remote for the TV. It was difficult for him to navigate his thumb to the button and press, so I pressed on top of his thumb. He sat watching a home improvement program intently, and Susie and Kevin said their goodbyes and left.
Danny was calm. A CNA came in to check his blood sugar, then went out to the doorway, which was about 15 or 20 feet away from the bed, and softly reported it to Danny's nurse. I heard Danny take a kinda deep breath and when I looked at him, he said to me, "My blood sugar is 92." I said "WHAT?" and he repeated it again!! I wish I could remember so much more. I remember hugging him and saying OMG You're talking, and him commenting "well of course" like it was just another day, another word,....I was beside myself. Well, for the next hour he talked on and on. His speech was perfectly clear and ungarbled, but very very soft. I had to ask him to repeat things over and over. He was confused. He said there were ashes all over him and he was going to burn. He asked about Nick and said he had to see him and that he missed him. He said he missed Chris and my granddaughter Sarah, and he asked about Chris' gf Tiffany. He asked questions about the accident. He didn't remember anything about it being a car wreck. I explained no one else was hurt and that he was in a rehab center because he banged up his head pretty bad. I told him he receives speech, physical and occupational therapy. Later he tried sitting up and I asked him where he was going, and he said "Occupational therapy"...lol.
Going home that night I made two wrong turns because I was excitedly talking to Deanne on my cell telling her all about the talking. Harold hadn't been exaggerating at all. Danny just was waiting til he was good and ready to talk...and that was just like Danny :-)
I went back up to the room and we all sat talking for an hour or so. I sat on the bed with Danny and helped him work the buttons on the remote for the TV. It was difficult for him to navigate his thumb to the button and press, so I pressed on top of his thumb. He sat watching a home improvement program intently, and Susie and Kevin said their goodbyes and left.
Danny was calm. A CNA came in to check his blood sugar, then went out to the doorway, which was about 15 or 20 feet away from the bed, and softly reported it to Danny's nurse. I heard Danny take a kinda deep breath and when I looked at him, he said to me, "My blood sugar is 92." I said "WHAT?" and he repeated it again!! I wish I could remember so much more. I remember hugging him and saying OMG You're talking, and him commenting "well of course" like it was just another day, another word,....I was beside myself. Well, for the next hour he talked on and on. His speech was perfectly clear and ungarbled, but very very soft. I had to ask him to repeat things over and over. He was confused. He said there were ashes all over him and he was going to burn. He asked about Nick and said he had to see him and that he missed him. He said he missed Chris and my granddaughter Sarah, and he asked about Chris' gf Tiffany. He asked questions about the accident. He didn't remember anything about it being a car wreck. I explained no one else was hurt and that he was in a rehab center because he banged up his head pretty bad. I told him he receives speech, physical and occupational therapy. Later he tried sitting up and I asked him where he was going, and he said "Occupational therapy"...lol.
Going home that night I made two wrong turns because I was excitedly talking to Deanne on my cell telling her all about the talking. Harold hadn't been exaggerating at all. Danny just was waiting til he was good and ready to talk...and that was just like Danny :-)
Omg! Its 1am n i cant fall asleep. I feel like a kid on christmas, so thrilled n excited. Danny has alot of memory, i saw alot of his personality shine thru n 4 the 1st time i can truly say i know hell be ok no matter how hard R trials. He said he misses nick n wants 2 C him n i have to get him 2 C him, mayb b4 the wknd sumhow. Im overwhelmed n gr8ful 4 all the prayers weve recieved!
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