I am at my friends' home in the nice room they've given me, writing as the thunder and lightening are busy outside, God that lightening is close!
Today was a day of very mixed emotions. He seemed more aware (so to speak), even sort of smiling at me at times. I downloaded Pandora radio to my cell phone and played classical music for him for an hour or so. I was happy thinking that he was listening, but later on I began to wonder if he really heard it. I wonder if he has become totally deaf and that is one reason he does not respond to commands. Even the hearing aids don't seem to make a difference. Right now he is unable to read or write so we can't communicate that way either. Some have said this may be that he has been on pain killers for so long, but I wonder. Something isn't right.
I think they are moving him to the regular part of the hospital. I thought of that as progress at one time, but now realize that it means they have done all they can do in the Intensive Care Unit.
Today may have been a little better for Redjeb, but not for me. I am rather down this eve.
Tomorrow my nephew Will arrives from Maine to spend a few days here. I will move back to the Holiday Inn, to be with him. Redjeb's daughter Nicole is in the country from Tbilisi. She is to come out on Thursday for the day and again on Sunday I think.
The storm is passing....
The writing seems to help you a lot Peggy. I'm glad you're writing, for us of course, but also for yourself in order to distill and clarify your thoughts. I wouldn't underestimate the effect of all those painkillers on an elderly person who is also suffering the numerous other effects of a physical injury, though none of us want (or can) think of Redjeb as an elderly man. I just googled a a combination of words and many articles seem to say the same.
ReplyDeleteThere are bound to be some down days. I hope the storm has finally passed, and if it hasn't, remember that the sun is always there, still shining behind the clouds.
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