Monday, January 1st

We didn’t get to have our New Year’s Eve Party…. Kerrie is back at Henry Ford.

Kerrie has been doing so well, looking better, sounding better,talking better, eating more, reading the newspaper, improving every single day.. so I have to say I just can’t #$%#& understand this.  I’m tired of having to live by the motto “Everything Happens For A Reason.”

Yesterday was a good day, with lots of family visiting, and Kerrie in great spirits. Around 5:15pm…few minutes after our Grandmother, Uncle Dan, Uncle John and Aunt Rosemary left I walked into Kerrie’s room and she didn’t look right. Had a strange look on her face.. so, almost jokingly, I asked her what my name was. Her response, “I don’t know.” I asked her again if she knew who I was and she said no and when I asked her my name she said, “July 13th”  The answer to a lot of the questions we asked her was, “July 13th.” I was trying to figure out why THIS date and it hit me later.. that was they day she was given her original diagnosis.

I asked if she knew who she was, where she was, what day it was, etc. Her response to all of them.. “No.” She didn’t know who Mom was, who her nurse was, etc. and complained of pain all over her head and face. At one point she told me there was a woman standing in the room, wearing a black dress and having a drink. She said it was Mom, but when Mom came in the room and I asked her if this was the woman she saw in the black dress she said, “No.” Bonnie, her nurse, acted extremely fast and had blood cultures and a CT- Scan done within an hour of me telling her there was a problem.

After the CT- Scan, she seemed to get better and knew the answers to anything we asked her, but the CT-Scan showed something there.. the Doctors at NOMC weren’t sure if it was something new, because they didn’t have the old CT-Scans and contacted Henry Ford. In the meantime the decision was made to move her to ICU, so she could be monitored. Once in ICU, she wasn’t able to tell us who we were, etc. and would get this really relieved look on her face when we would tell who we were and then she was say, “YES.. your mom!.”

The doctors at NOMC felt Kerrie should be transported back to Henry Ford and we agreed with this. The Nuero team there already knows her, has direct access to her previous MRI results, etc.m the BMT team is there and everyone there already is prepared for what she may need. The Nuero team, at Henry Ford, looked at the CT- Scan and felt that what was showing up was not new, had been there before, but felt Kerrie should come back to Henry Ford anyway.. since there is obviously something going on.

We celebrated the new year waiting for the ambulance transport service to come and we had Kerrie moved into her room, on P2, by 1:30am. Mom and I left the hospital a little after 3:30am since Kerrie was going to sleep, and seemed pretty comfortable knowing she was back on P2 and we went home to try to sleep.

Mom was back there by 8:30 and I’m on my way back now. We believe they will be doing an MRI, and possibly some other tests, to see if they can determine what’s going on.

I just spoke with Mom and she said Kerrie is doing better this morning. Not as clear minded, or speaking as clearly, as she was yesterday morning.. but much better than last night. She didn’t remember being moved to Henry Ford and was a little confused about where she was…

I’m completely torn, because I need to go back to work tomorrow and am supposed to leave on a recruting trip to Europe next week. Mom has already talked to Kerrie about my having to leave.. her response,” O.K. but what about her computer?”

She only wants me for my laptop 🙂

This is another setback, but hopefully only a small one, and she will be able to get back to NOMC soon. We don’t want to lose any ground on what’s shes been able to accomplish with her PT, but we know that Henry Ford is the best place for her to be right now.

Although I am sure most of you have not stopped.. please keep praying for Kerrie.

I’ll update again as soon as I have more info.

Jenn