"Lots of news today"

02-07-2009

1800 hours

So much news today, good news and some sad news.

First the little bit of sad news. This morning Dr. Doherty was the on call doctor. So as you can imagine I got to talk with her at great length.

The little bit of sad news is that the doctor would like me to have Dar's hair shortened. It has become very matted and staff does not have the time to deal with it.

Therefore Dar's hair will be shortened to about shoulder length. I will make a donation to "Locks for Love" in Dar's name. This is a small price to pay in her recovery. Hair will grow and she can gladly kick my ______ later. I will smile forever.

A miracle also happened in this matter also. My sister, Lorrie made some calls in the area and found a local shop owner, Sue Gillen, shop name to follow tomorrow, was a former patient of kentfield and has volunteered her services to Dar free of charge. This was a very gracious gesture from a very special lady that has been where Dar is and is living life to the fullest. Sue has exchanged addresses with my sister and will now be following Dar's blog. Tomorrow I will give you the name of her shop and all particulars. Halleluia to the newest member of Dar's Dream Team.

Ok, more about that tomorrow, while talking to Dr. Doherty as you can well guess my first question to her was "how is our girl doing", Dr. Doherty said that progress is being made slowly and that even in the last few days since my last trip Wednesday Dar has shown progress. Dr reminded me that this will be a slow process. a very slow process, and if you remember and I was reminded by Dr. Doherty, the longer Dar takes the better the results will be. Soooooo, when asked if she was still positive, Dr. Doherty said and I quote, "absolutley, then showed two thumbs up". That is some cool and great news.

I should also take a moment to qualify something I said earlier about what therapists would like to see. When I said that Dar was limp like a noodle, that is a good thing, it gives muscle tone a chance to come back naturally, the opposite of this which we don't want to see is very rigid and constricted. This being said Dar is in a very good place, in fact while Carol and I were combing out Dar's hair tonight I noticed that she would hold her head up by herself for a short time. This was very exciting, she evidently started doing this since Wednesday. I was supporting Dar's head while Carol combed, Dar laughed the whole time we worked on her hair.

Dar was very tired today and was up in her chair for over three hours so when we got her back to bed I decided to leave get my room, take care of the dog and do some writing.

One of the tasks tohight was to download a program to my computer that allows me to use my new Blackberry as a modem for the internet. Sooooo, tomorrow while I am at the hospital I can continue writing to you all. I am going to relax a bit and go to bed shortly but I wanted to take a minutseto drop you all a short note.

Again my thanks to Lorrie and Jerry, Dennis and Darci, Sue Gillen, Carol, Stewart, Latosha, for all that they have done today and being small little tools and angels that God is using in Dar's recovery.

I am going to close tonight with this, Dr Doerty is absolutley positive, this will be a very long road, and most importantly, this " THE LONGER DAR TAKES TO RECOVER THE MORE POSITIVE THE RESULTS", please rember this and keep it to heart, I must be honest, I lost sight of that for but a brief moment. I wanted what we all want, immediate results,,,,,, not this time folks, prepare for a marathon, not a sprint. Talk to you all tomorrow from the hospital.

We love each and every one of you, God bless you all

Darlene/Danny/Maverick