MAN what a wild ride this has been. Still going on. It will be our lives this week and probably for a few more. STILL don't know what's ahead really. It's like Jamie's 95% perfectly fine, but the 5% that is broken affects 95% of his body -- so he's unable to do hardly anything due to nausea and hideous head pain. THEY say that will go away as the blood in the brain is slowly reabsorbed. Slowly is the operative word I'm afraid. Sunday was hideous. Monday was actually pretty good, in retrospect. Tuesday and Wednesday were worse than Monday. So we're pretty confused and don't really have a handle on what's going on. We need a doctor to talk to (read: nail down) for answers which may not exist yet) and unless I'm there at 5:15 AM or 8:15 AM, I'm screwed. I missed yesterday morning for the first time and feel like I missed an entire chapter of a book or something. So I'll be in there by 8:00 today, by jingo (?).


BUT, he is alive and himself and should be able to get out of there in a week or two. Still risk of stroke for about 2 weeks total after something like this happens, another bleed risk for a day or so, a nurse finally revealed to me last night -- or maybe they did earlier and I didn't want to go there, so promptly forgot (very likely). 


Yet he looks great. Has good color, etc. BUT he doesn't sit up much, lies there with a wet/cold rag over his eyes, forehead and sleeps constantly OR is asking for pain or anti-nausea meds. The pain is brutal for him at times. Still isn't eating much at all. I'm amazed at how he is just taking it without much complaining. 


He just moved out of ICU last night before I left. He's now in IMC (intermediate care, room 255) and I actually like the feel of that room better. And WOW the nurse was cute! He looked like he was going to enjoy himself (relatively speaking). Thank GOD for small blessings!  (He'll only be there for a day or 2 or 3 and then upstairs to a regular room for who knows how long.)

I think he'll be able to see visitors today (Thursday), TRULY only a few at a time, and PLEASE for a limited amount of time -- 10 minutes (talking makes his head hurt). If he closes his eyes, it means his head hurts OR his Morphine is putting him to sleep and effort to talk will make him worse. 

Might help if visitor wannabes text me first to make sure no one else is going to be there at that time. I'm at 425-770-5235 (tell me who you are if it's a text), just to verify he's awake/feeling good enough and not already inundated with visitors. He REALLY wishes he could see people, believe me. Lying in the darkened room FLAT on his back or left side (Picc line is in right arm) with his head hurting is getting really old. Visitors exhaust him, but I KNOW the diversion is like NECTAR to his wounds.

Thanks for all the DARLING notes and cards and messages. Gary and Sam and I are so tremendously grateful for all the help and care he and we are receiving.

Love Sally

(Do I sign these? If I don't, I should. If I do, I shouldn't. Kinda like driving to this hospital. I get lost and go the complete opposite direction I'm supposed to -- multiple times each trip, to and fro, every single day.)