Sunday Early Morning

My family left the hospital at about 3:00 am to head home and try to rest. (Yeah right.) I am taking the first shift at the hospital because I did pack some clothes and brought my laptop. I will try to record everything that happens, although I'm not sure how accurate my account will be, since I'm tired and not such a good listener or rememberer. :)

Every hour at the top of the hour, the nurse comes into to take him off of the sedation for a few minutes. It takes about five minutes for it to wear off enough that he will "jump" or respond when you say his name. Then they ask him to grab their hand, wiggle fingers, wiggles toes, open eyes, etc. He responds better on his left than his right. And each hourly check is a little different. Some a little more response, some a little less.

They came at 4:30 am to take him to get another CT. The neuro doctor said that he seemed a little drowsy in his responses, so she wanted to get things re-checked. (The nurse just thought that he wasn't off the sedation enough, but the doctor wanted to check anyway.) She said that this will tell them if there has been any change, good or bad. After the CT, they didn't say much to me about it, other than there wasn't much change. Glad its not worse, I guess.

Still kind of in shock that this happened. I have moments of fear, panic or sadness, but its mostly just shock. Just trying to keep aware of what is going on.

During the last response check at 5:00 am, she added an extra couple of minutes to the sedation wear-off. She wanted him to "wake up really bright." He opened his eyes a few times and looked right at me. I smiled at him and told him that he was doing great and that he just needed to do what the nurse said. I'm sure he is scared and has no idea what is really happening to him. I wish I had time to explain it all. I think the next time he is awake I'll try to explain a little.

Thats all for now. I'll update more when I know more.