Movin' on up...

Yesterday (Monday) our day was greeted by meetings with both the neurologist and cardiologist ... Each provided favorable reports and overall stable conditions of the brain/heart, and independently recommended starting a therapy regimen ... Encouraging words/diagnosis ... By noon, we were packing up belongings to move from the Critical Care Unit to the Neurological Observation Level (FYI : Room 668) ... More specifically, this wing is effectively the post-stroke unit of the hospital, and acts as a bridge between critical and traditional care.


After getting situated in our new real estate, in came the therapists ... Mom was assisted up on her feet for the first time since Thursday ... A bit shaky at the onset, but she fought incredibly hard and walked +/-10 steps ... What an incredible sight ... In addition to this short stint towards mobility, tongue and eye exercised were completed in the afternoon ... By the evening, we could tell fatigue was beginning to set in ... And understandably so, as there were no naps allowed this afternoon - just plain, on-the-go hustle ... All in a hard day's work ... We are anxious to help Mom continue another day of battle today.


While the underlying cause remains a bit perplexing, as it stands (as mentioned yesterday), irregular beating of the heart appears to be the lone smoking gun ... Correspondingly, doctors generated a second CT scan of the heard yesterday for comparative purposes ... We should receive those results sometime today, but we are not overly hopeful that it will offer any more transparency to the case ... An isolated cause may never appear, but with medicines able to regulate any issues, we are confident that we will, in time, be able to achieve some level of normalcy ... Yesterday was the first +/-10 shaky steps of Mom's journey towards recovery.


Thanks for the thoughts/prayers ... Please keep them coming/multiplying.


Clint