Thursday

Father John came again for a short visit before having to return to Michigan, again annointing Chris and giving her Holy Communion.  While there Chris asked him to give a blessing to our supernurse because she and her husband have been unable to conceive. Father joked afterwards that if she had twins he'd know the real reason he was called here.

After the visit Chris slept for a couple of hours, which is pretty hard to do there with so many people in and out, but she was uncomfortable and restless the night before and hardly slept so exhaustion caught up to her.  After that the day was routine (I guess everything is relative).  The Drs. did their rounds and did the daily neurological exam (daily for the Dr, the nurses do them every single hour); lift this foot, lift that leg, pull me towards you, push away, where are you and what's the date, etc.  No problem.  And later the technician did the transcranial doppler test (TCD), the device that measures blood flow/volume in the brain blood vessels and which detects vasospasms - no vasospasms.  Excellent. Only a few more days to get past the window in which they may occur.  The daily neurological exams and the TCD are the two biggest things of interest.

She did have a couple of those awful restless episodes where she is just beside herself. And the nurse did her best to combat those with pain meds, ice packs, bed adjustments and just about anything else they could think of to help her through them.  The Dr says it's normal and is due to the blood in the brain from the original bleed.  Only time will fix it.

So all in all a pretty uneventful day, just the way we want.