Monday 28 February 2011

28th February 2011

I've written about the eepops oopops, (it’s actually Upupa epops!!) that was said by Steven with a Groucho Marx sort of look, twiddling fingers, rolling eyes etc. Here's some more Stevenisms. The place where we crush his pills had some residue of pills, so Steven says "Clean that, it looks like I've done a line of coke". The nurses and us are laughing our heads off at his antics. Just hope this isn't a sympton of inappropriate behaviour in PTA. I gave him a dessert mixture of, wait for it, strawberries, ice cream, strawberry yoghurt drink, and crushed malted milk biscuits, he has a taste and says "Is Mum here" I say no she's at the house, He says "This is (expletive deleted!!) gorgeous". He went to see the donkey and saw it eating an orange which had fallen in it's own muck, and Steven keeps talking and laughing about that. I could go on, but the whole day was a riot of laughter. Steven has such an amazing smile, no wonder the nurses are after him. He still keeps crying, and he says it's with happiness. That started again this morning when he was told his tracheotomy had healed completely and was now closed, with no need for a dressing. At the same time, his left foot injury was declared healed, again with no need for a dressing. So tears all round again. He's making good progress, we hope it doesn't stop. Sunday morning he remembered everything that had happened yesterday, from the jokes to going for a walk to seeing his dog, this is all good for the PTA, new memories are important.
Monday morning, injury on right foot healed enough to have dressings removed, another plus for Steven. These signs are important for Steven, because even he can now recognise progress. Again he retained his memory of the weekend.
We now don’t know how to handle Steven at the moment due to his increased talking. To listen to him, we can’t make our mind up whether we’re laughing at him, or with him, sounds horrible, but he does seem very innocent and vulnerable. When we have the opportunity we’ll ask the doctors, but it’s possible it’s all part of the PTA. There’s no doubting his intelligence and language skills, but it’s like listening to an old man with a child’s voice. We’re sure speech therapy and any sort of psycho’ therapy will correct this. Also today he walked 12 steps with the help of 2 nurses, but he’s still dizzy and tired afterwards. He says it’s the balancing which is the problem. His progress in such a short time has been amazing.
We have always told him about messages of support from people, but now he understands them, remembers them, and is grateful for them, and again that starts him crying, because it’s only now he’s fully realising what’s being said about him.
He says he has been through hell, and is beginning to remember much of the pain, but doesn’t yet want to know the full details of his ordeal. He originally thought he’d been involved in yet another motorbike accident, but now knows it was when he was in a taxi. He cried when he knew that his girlfriend, Veronica, had been injured.
best regards
Terry

1 comment:

  1. Terry, you say Steven is crying well let me tell you something, SO AM I. Its such great news that we are reading and tell Steven we are thinking about him all the time, saw Eddie this morning and up he came again. Come on Steven, you can do it. Terry, you and your family are an inspiration to us all and I hope that if this is read by others who may be in a same situation that they indeed see the light and never give up.
    Keep it up Steven.

    David Winder

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