Peter. Thank you for the update. A small chink of hope...
PD
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On 17 Aug 2020, at 09:07, Peter Curtis <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is the very latest from Jan. Good news, but still a long way to go.
I visited yesterday morning to cut the grass and do a bit of gardening. As
Carol will testify , I approach gardening ( preferably with some sort of power
tool in hand ) with equal amounts of enthusiasm and ignorance. I think I do a
great job but Jan may be a few plants down !
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Stringer <janxstringer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Jan Stringer <janxstringer@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 0:14
Subject: John
Feel free to skim read this. I suspect updates will slow down now as I am
probably not allowed to visit as often.
This is what I thought was different today from Thursday and Friday.
- He's off the ventilator and breathing completely by himself. He had an oxygen
mask which was very noisy, so not sure how much he could hear me.
- His hand squeeze had a bit of power.
- He was awake when I got there and managed to have at least one eye, at least
half open on and off for at least half an hour. Left eye is still sluggish and
not focusing as well.
- He's moving his right forearm a lot more than previously. He could reach up
to my face and even put his hand in my hair and rubbed it (I've waited 33 years
for a bit of romance!)
- When I was trying to manipulate the fingers on his left hand to stop them
getting stuck in a claw position, he put his right hand on my arm and gave me a
bit of a rub - as if to say he understood and wanted to comfort me.
- He could lift his head a little off the pillow and tried to move his position
for himself - but never managed due to the left side not working.
- He can just about nod and shake his head so I asked a few questions ...
1. Did he know who I was? Nod and squeeze of hand.
2. I thought he felt cold and his sheet was down towards his middle so I pulled
it up saying...
"We don't want all of these nurses ogling your chest, do we?" to which he
nodded! So I left it down.
3. I was quiet towards the end of my visit and just held his hand while he had
his eyes closed. I said sorry that I was quiet, but he's heard my news and it
might be boring. Then I thought, what a silly thing to say to someone who's
been in a coma for 11 days and so I said, "But it probably isn't boring to you,
is it?" This time he shook his head, but still had eyes closed.
Not sure what to read into this. Either he really does understand and he's
being lovely/cheeky/lovely depending on the question, or he is only half there
and just hears the inflection in my voice and thinks, uh-oh she's asked a
question. Which sort of head movement should I do? 50:50 chance of it being the
right one.
Slightly sad is the news that he still isn't moving the left side at all. Maybe
the toe movement yesterday was imagined - easy to do. Also, now he is less
likely to die, I think I am off the emergency list and am now on the 3x a week.
Not sure if I'll be allowed to go tomorrow.
Lots of love and thanks for thinking of us.
xx
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