We are home! And, it’s been a wonderful day. After meeting with the doctor and their PA, getting our discharge papers, and prescriptions, we left the hospital about 10:30 and made our way home. We were greeted by beautiful flowers in our front door planter and a “Welcome Home” sign complete with balloons. I hope that the individual and/or individuals who provided the flowers and sign will text me so I can thank them properly.
Once home Joy, through joyful tears, toured the house up and down. Joy then sat quietly while I fixed lunch and we sat in our normal hightop chairs at the kitchen island where we typically eat our everyday meals and Joy did just fine. This, by the way, was pre-approved by OT.
After lunch, Joy took a nap while I did some insurance/provider/billing calls and when she woke up we walked arm in arm together to the mailbox to get the mail. Joy just kept repeating, “this is wonderful, this is wonderful!” We spent more time exploring the house and closets and drawers as Joy re-familiarized herself with home again. I then cut Joy’s hair to get an even length all over and she had a shower during which she again kept repeating, “this is wonderful, this is wonderful!” The shower was followed by copious amounts of body lotion to counteract the weeks of dry hospital air and bedding.
At rehab Joy was wearing some really uncomfortable goggles with alternating tape over one eye then the other to accommodate for the vertical diplopia. So we got rid of the goggles and got Joy some non-rx glasses so she could have distance and readers for right eye and the left eye without having to move the tape back and forth each day.
Then Joy was sitting in the living room and saw her Sudoko book on the coffee table. She picked it up and started paging though it, she then started completing a puzzle she had started before the accident and got the answers right! Then she completed three more puzzles from the start and also completed them correctly!
So we are very thankful for all your faithful prayers that have brought us this far and have worked in Joy’s body and mind to create the miraculous results we are seeing in Joy. Continued prayers are still earnestly requested for language comprehension and speech and correction/restoration of her eyesight, which although she accommodates, is still very compromised. As we make this transition, I will probably not post daily, but we will certainly continue to keep you posted on progress made and milestones met and/or challenges for which we need your prayers. Please keep them up.
Once again, thank you, thank you, thank you, and I will join Joy in saying, “this is wonderful, this is wonderful!” And, you are all a very really part of the wonderful.
