Day 23 – Friday 5 December
Not much to report today; we arrived at our usual time to find Paul asleep following a busy morning of occupational health and physiotherapy. We let him sleep for a while but he still had his specs on so I tried very carefully to remove them without disturbing him, but he woke up. This is one major change we have noticed with Paul – it no longer takes the detonation of a thermo nuclear device beside his bedside to wake him, he now wakes quite readily, is wide awake virtually straight away and is not grumpy; let’s hope this remains! He had managed to shave himself this morning but used his wet razor rather than his electric one and had managed quite well with only a couple of minor nicks!
We chatted for a while about what he had done that morning and then Anna and Amy arrived so we left them for a while to chat without us; they left around 1530 and then Liz (from work) arrived armed with a bag of cakes and drinks, and then Carolyn and Alan (Stu’s Mum and Dad) arrived armed with some J2Os for Paul – that should all keep him going until tomorrow!
He is now talking quite well and we are noticing small but positive improvements every day. We were discussing the days before the accident and his recollection is getting better; he can now remember the day of the accident and remembered that we had to get part of the engine management system on his car replaced on the day of the accident (which I have just paid for!) and then he told us that he wanted to see what the car looked like. We asked him if he was sure and he said yes so we showed him the pictures, but we were not sure at the time whether he registered that it was his car and that he had been driving it. It was very difficult to know whether to show him or not but I guess if it helps him to understand why he is in the situation he now finds himself then it is OK? He said later that he didn’t think the car looked as bad as he expected so that shows that it probably had sunk in and he asked to see the pictures again. His short term memory is still not very good though so it will be interesting to see if he remembers tomorrow; unless he asks we don’t intend to let him see them again.
Supper tonight was Chicken Tikka Masala and chocolate mousse – and this was after cakes, tea, chocolate etc. during the afternoon.
I left a little early today with Mark as we were going to a dinner to celebrate Mike Ward’s 25 years as curator of the Transport Museum so I am not sure what else he had to eat after I had left or who else came to visit.
So, in summary, another good day with slow but steady improvement.
4 comments:
He did remarkably better shaving this morning than i did then.......
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i can't believe he gets up and isn't grumpy, this isn't the same person!!!
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that last post was from holly, oops
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im having trouble imagining paul wake up so quickly and happily... imagine if from now on he just needs one little alarm clock to wake him up?!!
or maybe he just woke up because he knew there was another day filled with cakes and donuts awaiting him?
Laura xxx
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