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Wednesday/August/2008 10:31 PM Barrie`s
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Hi all,
MT and I both had a really good visit tonight and for me, who had not seen Barrie since the removal of his ventilator tube, this was be far the most encouraging visit yet!
Barrie was able to talk to us! No more lip reading, no more trying to decipher facial expressions and best of all, no more white board!! It is difficult to say if the white board was worth the few words we managed to spell out in previous visits, over the frustration and time endured trying to string a few letter together. So full on speech was like music to my ears. We all managed not only a good chat but also some humour thrown in for good measure.
Dad was fully aware that he has been having a few funny thoughts, such as being kidnapped and about going out for walks, his cat etc, he knows that these are just a combination of his subconscious thoughts and cocktail of drugs. He knows that these vivid dreams are not reality, this shows how on the ball he really is.
Dad did not complain about any of his pains, soars or of being too uncomfortable, even if he was, he was just getting on with it.
We stayed for 90 mins and said au revoir until tomorrow.
All good, just now need to get kidneys functioning correctly, a few other things and then we can get on with the orthopaedic side of dads rehabilitation.
Hope he is on form tomorrow!!
Signing off, very tired
Max
MT and I both had a really good visit tonight and for me, who had not seen Barrie since the removal of his ventilator tube, this was be far the most encouraging visit yet!
Barrie was able to talk to us! No more lip reading, no more trying to decipher facial expressions and best of all, no more white board!! It is difficult to say if the white board was worth the few words we managed to spell out in previous visits, over the frustration and time endured trying to string a few letter together. So full on speech was like music to my ears. We all managed not only a good chat but also some humour thrown in for good measure.
Dad was fully aware that he has been having a few funny thoughts, such as being kidnapped and about going out for walks, his cat etc, he knows that these are just a combination of his subconscious thoughts and cocktail of drugs. He knows that these vivid dreams are not reality, this shows how on the ball he really is.
Dad did not complain about any of his pains, soars or of being too uncomfortable, even if he was, he was just getting on with it.
We stayed for 90 mins and said au revoir until tomorrow.
All good, just now need to get kidneys functioning correctly, a few other things and then we can get on with the orthopaedic side of dads rehabilitation.
Hope he is on form tomorrow!!
Signing off, very tired
Max