Sorry there was no news from yesterday… I see a large number of people logged on to the site and I feel bad that I wasn’t able to get anything on here. Mom says Kerrie doing well, singing her “Kerrie Carol” to the nursing staff and making them laugh.. and counting down the days until I can get back. Mom told me Kerrie announced “Only two more days until I have my Jenny back.”  That just pulls at my heart and I wish I could go back right now. They still have not done the MRI.. so Mom is going to push for it tomorrow. We were both so hectic when she…

No word on the results of the Echo-Cardiograom yet.. and they didn’t take Kerrie for her MRI last night. Waited most of the night, and expected them to come for her around 2:00am, but they may have had emergencies that took priority. As of 6:30pm, when I spoke to Mom, she hadn’t had it yet. Perhaps tonight. It was a short visit with Kerrie, but nice.. we sang her new Christmas Carol to a few of the nurses and Dr. Yates, with the BMT team, thought it was very funny. Kerrie got such a kick out of it I wrote the words down, and taped them to the wall accross…

Just got a call from Mom.. Kerrie is having a very emotional day and, for the first time, has verbally expressed that she understands some of the things that have happened to her. We were sure she was aware of it, and would get upset.. say she was in pain.. and call for more dilauded if it was brought up.. but she’s never really said anything. I don’t know if Kerrie has just realized this today, since it has been almost two months now, but today she told Mom she couldn’t see out of her left eye and that it wouldn’t open. She’s been upset today.. so we don’t know…

Today was another one of those days with not much news.. Kerrie had a “normal” day.. with ice chips, nurses, doctors and Mom. Not a very exciting report.. but I would rather be saying nothing special happened today than bringing you devestating news. Even though there’s not much to report on Kerrie, that doesn’t mean I don’t have a lot to say! I always have something to say and today is going to be my “rant” day. Why is it that everyone you meet, total strangers, who happen to get access to your date of birth ( from your drivers license, car lease application, car insurance information, etc.) feel the…

Fill the cup with lots of ice chips. Fa la la la la.. la la la la Screw the food just bring me ice chips. Fa la la la la.. la la la la I don’t need this stinkin face mask. Fa la la la la la la la la There’s the door, go get my ice chips. Fa la la la la.. la la la la Ha.. just found myself making this up while I was sitting here trying to figure out how to start this post. Made me laugh, so I guess it did its job. I’ll have to teach that one to Kerrie when I get back…

Very little to let you know today… Neurosurgery did not come in today and, of course, I grilled Mom about the reasons for this but she doesn’t have any more answers on this than I do. She plans on addressing this with the BMT Team tomorrow and hopefully we will find out what’s going on. My phone rang this afternoon and when I answered it Kerrie was on the other end of the line! She just wanted to tell me that she was sitting up in a chair 🙂 Physical Therapy heeded Mom’s note and did not let Kerrie say “no” to her PT, so they got her up and…

I waited, cell phone by my side, all day.. waiting for the dreaded call from Mom saying Nuerosurgery had come in to evaluate Kerrie. Waited for the news that I would need to pack my bags and head back to Michigan. Every time my cell phone rang my heart would stop, I would get a lump in my throat, and I would look to see who it was. I waited through the morning, through the afternoon and into the evening. The call never came. As a matter of fact, as of 10:00pm I still hadn’t gotten a call.. so I stopped scrubbing my kitchen floor ( YES.. I actually got…

I’ve just come back from spending a few days with Kerrie and will try to do a decent update of everything that occured this weekend. I’ll apologize, in advance, for slaughtering any of the medical terms I will try to use. I don’t know how to spell them, and cannot even begin to guess on some of them, so will rely on phonetics. Those of you in the medical field will have to forgive me 🙂 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8th Made it to the hospital around 2:00pm and hoped to spend some “quality” time with Kerrie… thought it would be possible, since she wouldn’t be worn out and sleeping.. but proved…

Hello Everyone, A cold Saturday morning in Michigan……… but supposed to get balmy in the next day or two (in the 40s….can’t wait). It’s been a relatively quiet weekend with Kerrie. If you have been reading the web page then you know she started swallowing last Friday when I was helping her with her mouth care and she asked to drink some of the water….. 5 medicine cups later the doctor bawled me out for giving it to her before she had a swallow study. She did say she could have ice chips…..Ker solved that by letting her ice chips melt and then drinking the water. She did have a…

For all of you hungry for information I am sorry to say there is little to report right now. I spoke with Mom about an hour ago and she said Kerrie is much the same.. chomping on ice and waiting for her to go to work every day.. in the hopes the nurses will let her have more ice than we will. My fear is that they WILL give her all the ice she asks for, but I am pretty sure they all know she has to have a limit set. Physical Therapy started up again, yesterday, and they had Kerrie sitting on the edge of her bed for a…