My Little Darlin, PT Week 7

Day 13 at Shepherd.  No therapy today so nothing to compare to physical wise.  This morning when I arrived she was in an open area where all the patients eat having been taken there by her nurse and given her tray.  She had eaten very little.  You know how a small child is when they fall and don't really get hurt but as soon as they know that their patent has seen them they start crying.  Well Jan saw me coming in from about 200 feet away and immediately started crying.  It was I want to go home, I am cold, the nurses are mean and lie and make fun of me and I will do better at home.  Jan did go on and on about how the nursing staff was mean to her.  What she is basing this on likely did happen.  Seems at least part of this is based on when they bath her in the morning.  I have heard some of Jan's end of this from outside the door.  The other morning they were giving her a sponge bath and she was very loudly letting it be known how cold it was and that she did not want it.  She was told that as a physician that she should understand why what was being done was being done.  Jan tells me she told them that she did not like their attitude and I am sure she did say that.   It should be told that immediately before the sponge bath they had tried to get jan to take a shower but she had adamantly refused.  Again this is related her brain injury but this defiance has been improving.  This woe is me went on throughout the morning on and on with the crocodile tears and thrown in some apologies to me for being so much trouble.   I wiped the tears told her she was doing great and that it would be ok.  I also told her the only way she could go home was to work hard with the therapists to get better.  She responded "I don't want to work hard".  I had not warned her but Parisa and Kevin came over to Atlanta for a visit.  It was amazing how Jan lightened up when they walked in.  It was almost like she had never had any head injury.  All afternoon we carried on a normal conversation with a lot of smiles.  Jan was even joking about being dane bramaged.  She did tell them how bad the food was and asked for a cheeseburger and blizzard from Dairy Queen.  I told Kevin and Parisa this would get the same response from the hospital food (which she calls spam and uses the word nasty with every bite).  They went and got her the requested food, she nibbled it and then did not eat it and decided it was nasty but laughed about it.  She was obviously very tired but with Kevin and Parisa joining in to encourage her to work hard with the therapists she was saying she would when we left her this evening.  It was a great afternoon and the way she was today tells me her recovery is accelerating rapidly.    !!!!!!!!! TIGT !!!!!!!!

Please do not ever forget what got her here and she is one of the lucky one that has had this happen.

SHARE THE ROAD, IT'S A LIFE
PUT THE !%@$# CELL PHONE DOWN BEFORE YOU KILL SOMEBODY
GET OFF THE COUCH,  LIFE IS FOR DOING STUFF
SUPPORT BIKE WALK MISSISSIPPI,  TIGT
BRIGHT IS COOL

I Love My Little Darlin, She's back !!!
David