>From Mallory's mother: Hi everyone,
I love a day like today. I was so shocked when I walked into the room. I came later than usual because I thought it would be a calm day after yesterday and I had some of Mal's business to take care of. She was sleeping peacefully and all the IV's were off, the ventilator was unplugged. I go up and start talking to her and her eyes open and stay open and she blinks. She also started moving. I was thrilled. Then the nurse came in and gave me the update. I have to laugh at my ignorance and ignorance is bliss. The nurse tells me they were able to X-ray her neck and would get results later in the day. Apparently, the brace was in place because they could not tell if she had any broken bones in her neck. They didn't want her to move and get paralyzed. I'm glad I didn't know that. They had told me earlier the brace was keeping all her tubes in place. Now that I think about it, I should have questioned it, but frankly we have been facing so much, I didn't need to worry about that too. It was a few longs hours waiting for the good news of no broken bones. But the best news was no brain infection. I told Steve share the news. We love the good news. This afternoon was rough for her. She is coughing up the junk in her lungs and she is miserable, she makes these bad faces. But it really is good for her. They have to suction occasionally and clean the trachea tube. But they like she has a good vigorous cough. Hemogobin level good. No need for extra blood, they had to give her some a few days ago. White blood count getting lower. No sedation at all. Just antibiotics and tube feeding. Keep it up, Mal. Please keep up the prayers. She still needs them. Thanks for all your concern.Also, if anyone is interested, Dr.Liao, who I think is just fabulous, showed a website to my sister, Patti (who came for a few days) and me and printed out some information for us. The site is Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. It has a listing of the levels a person goes through as they recover from brain trauma. Also, I wanted to update on Mal's friend. He has finally been added to this list. His dad has been on it. But the mama hen in me did not want him to be too stressed until he got better after his two surgeries. He is recovering, has shooting pains at times in his legs, but getting better day by day. His name is Rex Dean Rainach, Jr. His family has always called him Dean, but after he got out of college, he went by Rex in the working world. I met him as Rex and then his family was calling him Dean and those first few days, my mind was addled and I struggled with the name change. So we changed his name again. In Avoyelles Parish, French is still around to some degree. People call each other T whatever, meaning little. How it is spelled is questionable, but it is short for petite. Our kids call each other T-Cal, T-Mal. So we decided to call him T-Rex. Then we realized that is the abbreviation for a dinosaur. Anyway, I like the name but eventually we will have to figure what he wants to be called. He has been calling most days when he wasn't in surgery. I would sugarcoat at first but came clean today and laid things out. Frankly, I think his dad already did and he had to figure it out after all this time. But I will always be a protective mom. And my daughter's friends get my momma loving also. Have a good night or day. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
