Well she got daddy's attention, Graham On May 29, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Javier Garcia wrote:
> Come on Graham, I think this was all made up to get dady's attention... you > know how kids are, right? > She is fine. That's all that matters now. > > Javier. > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Graham Rogers <grahamjoanrog...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> For those of you who have been following this, here is an update I just >> completed. I wish I could say that Julie is back riding a Nighthawk but I >> can't. She has never owned one, nor ridden one, Graham > >> Subject: Julie's home >> >> The progress Julie made in the last week continued to astound us. She was >> comfortable and confident in conversation though some words 'didn't fit'. >> She and Michael had walked around the hospital including up and down 18 >> steps (she counted them). We met with her neuropsychologist who updated us >> on her progress and prognosis for the future. This morning she was dressed >> ready to go home in her oldest pair of jeans that were still too big for >> her. At 104 pounds she is 25 pounds lighter than she was 12 weeks ago. One >> of the things most familiar to her that still evaded her recall was her >> home. Even the address was something that seemed strange. She had no >> memory of where she lived or what her home was like. We arrived home to >> this unfamiliar place early this afternoon and as she and Michael turned on >> her street, it started to come back to her . As soon as she entered their >> little house, it all came back. She remembered it all, even the little >> things like the picture without glass (which she broke she said). She >> wondered from room to room with tears in her eyes. >> We hung around while Michael went and had prescriptions filled and then left >> before the kids came home from school to their mother who just 12 weeks >> before had entered the hospital with 'acute respiratory failure followed by >> total organ failure'. (I have the doctor's discharge notes in front of me >> and Joan to interpret). She could not oxygenate her blood. She was placed >> on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO machine) and required atrial >> septostomy (to fix her heart) . She went into renal (kidney) failure , >> requiring dialysis and developed a left lung abscess, requiring I and D (a >> tube inserted into her lung to drain it). She then developed multiple air >> emboli through the extracorporeal device causing 'neurological defects' (air >> got sucked into her body, went to her brain causing multiple strokes leaving >> her unaware and nonresponsive). We said goodbye to her three times along >> with the knowledge that every time we left the hospital we might not see her >> again this side of eternity. >> >> Here she is now with Michael just hours ago before we left the hospital, >> Graham >> >> <2013-05-28 Julie and Michael, last day at Moss.jpg> >> >> >> We will see Julie again on Friday to take her to her first outpatient, rehab >> appointment. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
