Oh Happy Days! After 2 weeks in 3 hospitals, 2 ambulance rides, 3 CT
scans, 2 MRIs, IVs, heart monitors, a feeding tube, and a week spent
with wires glued to his head, and repeatedly being quizzed on what day
it was and who was the president, Bob was finally discharged from the
Cleveland Clinic last evening!!
After a whole afternoon of
delays of one kind or another, the last thing to be done was to remove
the EEG wires that had been glued to Bob’s head for a week and were
itching like crazy. At that point, Bob took matters into his own hands
and began pulling the wires off himself! That got the staff to come
running, but by the time they got there he had them all off and all that
was to be done was to soak away the glue.
Bob was very happy to
be out in the world again, and I was very happy to have him be so much
his old self, when that had at one point been very much in doubt. We
had a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant while we waited for his
prescriptions to be filled. When we got home to Bob’s sister’s Laurel’s
house, Bob headed straight for a hot shower, a blessed pleasure of
modern life! After that, we were both ready to turn in early as it had
been a good but intense day.
The other happy news of the day was that Bob’s dad was also discharged from his hospitalization. So we were doubly blessed!
We
plan to leave for Virginia in the morning and to stop in
Charlottesville, where Bob has a four-hour assessment that was
previously scheduled for Thursday morning. This is the same assessment
that Bob did yesterday that ended up taking most of the day. But with
these two assessments done, the two teams of neurologists who will be
assessing to see if he is a candidate for the latest technological
intervention will have the information they need for his case to go
before the respective panels, one at UVA and the other at the Cleveland
Clinic. So far, the increased meds Bob is taking have stopped his
seizures, so we are grateful and relieved as we await the news of what
the panels of doctors think can be done next.
Thank you, thank
you, thank you, for all of your prayers, good thoughts, and kind words.
They have buoyed and supported us through this crisis.
Megan
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