Small update! Good update! 

Sorry for the hiatus lately, password probs. 

Good evening! 

Late post tonight because Nicholas and I buzzed down to North Memorial after work tonight. We got some news from multiple family members that Tina is starting to speak! 
We decided to come down and see for ourselves but after her Oxycodone and way past bed time we didn’t get to hear her talk. She opened her eyes a couple of times and the nursing assistants call her a busy body because she moves so much! 

On Sunday when they repositioned her she said “ ouch ouch ouch.”  The trauma team came in during their rounds and asked if she was in pain, and she said “no, not right now.”  

Matt went down today and he was saying goodbye for the night and she was able to say bye back, and he said love you, and she tried multiple times to say it back but all he could do is read her lips. 

They are now introducing speech therapy into her daily regime. They also try to sit her in a chair two times per day.  The plan is to move her to Bethesda hospital in St. Paul tomorrow pending the insurance hoops. 

This is exciting news for us as Tina is trying!  She still isn’t tracking with her eyes but she continues to improve in the right direction! 

Tonight, you could say we got some good news. 
The neurologist looked at the MRI and said that Tina did NOT have a stroke!! What they saw on the CT weeks ago was the TBI ( traumatic brain injury). He said that there still is the blood that hasn’t been absorbed, which we knew. There are a couple areas that are bruised, but still in the healing process.
He directly said “We don’t know an outcome or what/if her deficits will be because she is still in the early process of healing.” Even though it’s been a month and feels like forever! 

Have a good night! 

We have unfortunately reached the one month mark. What a long month.

Nicholas, Matt and myself came down to visit for a couple hours this afternoon. Tina still continues to do great on the vent dome ( humidified oxygen to keep everything moist). She is moving all extremities quite frequently.  They checked her circulation on her feet and she withdrew from that immediately. She still tries to move her left leg. She brings both her hands up to her face and “itches” her nose and rubs her eyes. She still remains unresponsive and opens her eyes sporadically but not on commands. Her pupils are equal and reactive. 

She did have the MRI on Saturday which revealed that she still has blood on her brain that hasn’t been absorbed yet. Which means she is still in that “healing” process. They call this a “stable MRI”.  This may take months for it to be absorbed, no one knows for sure. 

She will have more surgery on Thursday for the skin graph placement due to finding more dead tissue than expected. 

Thank you you for the continued support everyone!

Since being moved to the the med surg floor Tina started to get skin graphs on her leg due to some necrotic (dead) tissue. They are continuously doing this throughout the week. The nurse also said that since she has been there she has been opening both her eyes now, unfortunately she isn’t tracking or responding to commands. 
She continues to breath on her own, the trach will remain in place and we will still hope and pray that we can continue to make improvements. 

We just got off the phone with the RN case manager and they are planning on moving her to the rehab facility at the end of the week or early next week. 

Small update: 

Tina DID have surgery today on her left leg. She is officially internally fixed! They said her surgery went good!

 She has been moved to the med/surg floor and out of the ICU. Still no neurological changes unfortunately. 

Have a a good night!! 

There hasn’t been much to update hence the lack of updating.... sorry.

Tina is completely off the ventilator. They still have the trach in place. They have surgery tentatively scheduled for Thursday or Friday to finally and hopefully fix her leg.  After this they will keep her for a couple days and maybe place her in the med/surg floor.

She unfortunately still hasn’t woken up. We all know that head injuries take a lot of time but we’re ready, we’ve been ready. 
If surgery goes as planned she will be moved to a rehabilitation center somewhere in the cities.  Bruce, Tony and Christopher will be touring these places within the next couple days. 

Thank you everyone for still thinking about us and keeping us in your thoughts, we still need them!