11:20am
Tuesday is in sight. As we got through last week, and he spent his last Wednesday and Thursday at rehab, it became a lot easier to appreciate that he will be home in 4 more days. It's getting a little tougher for Taylor now. He just wants to come home.
The hardest part of all of this was never really knowing when he would come home. Initially, our questions were harder to ask ourselves. WOULD he come home? If he did, would he be OK? Would he talk, laugh and hug us? Could we have a life with him like he had for the previous 20 years? We've known for a couple of months now that we would get the old Taylor back. And, we knew that even if he wasn't 100% like he was the last time we saw him before the wreck, the most important part of him - his personality, his intellect, his memory and humor - were intact. The rest really doesn't matter all that much when you're faced with what he was facing. There are a LOT of things that are in a whole different perspective than they were before.
Yesterday Taylor had Doctor appointments all over the place.
He went to the Opthamologist to have his vision checked. His left eye that during the bad times only moved about 1/4 of an inch is healing well. We're unable to tell any difference now in how his eyes move, but he still has some double vision. He was tested again yesterday, and it continues to improve, so our hope is it will correct on its own. If not, he can be fitted for glasses that will fine tune the alignment. He goes back in 2 months, so we'll see how it does then.
The collar came off at the Neurosurgeon visit, and he's enjoying scratching his neck whenever he feels the need and sleeping more comfortably.
His last stop was the Podiatrist. He acquired 4 ingrown toenails that is pretty common, apparently, for patients like Taylor. They continue to heal well and it has had no real impact on his rehabilitation.
Four days to go.
Tuesday is in sight. As we got through last week, and he spent his last Wednesday and Thursday at rehab, it became a lot easier to appreciate that he will be home in 4 more days. It's getting a little tougher for Taylor now. He just wants to come home.
The hardest part of all of this was never really knowing when he would come home. Initially, our questions were harder to ask ourselves. WOULD he come home? If he did, would he be OK? Would he talk, laugh and hug us? Could we have a life with him like he had for the previous 20 years? We've known for a couple of months now that we would get the old Taylor back. And, we knew that even if he wasn't 100% like he was the last time we saw him before the wreck, the most important part of him - his personality, his intellect, his memory and humor - were intact. The rest really doesn't matter all that much when you're faced with what he was facing. There are a LOT of things that are in a whole different perspective than they were before.
Yesterday Taylor had Doctor appointments all over the place.
He went to the Opthamologist to have his vision checked. His left eye that during the bad times only moved about 1/4 of an inch is healing well. We're unable to tell any difference now in how his eyes move, but he still has some double vision. He was tested again yesterday, and it continues to improve, so our hope is it will correct on its own. If not, he can be fitted for glasses that will fine tune the alignment. He goes back in 2 months, so we'll see how it does then.
The collar came off at the Neurosurgeon visit, and he's enjoying scratching his neck whenever he feels the need and sleeping more comfortably.
His last stop was the Podiatrist. He acquired 4 ingrown toenails that is pretty common, apparently, for patients like Taylor. They continue to heal well and it has had no real impact on his rehabilitation.
Four days to go.
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