8 weeks

Hi all,

I know it has been 2 weeks since my last post, but life has caught up with me ap bear with me on this one. Here is an update in what we know.

She is still in a minimal conscious state.

She is making some progress in terms of new things she is doing but not much.

Her therapies are all going great, but in order for them to be able to push harder needs to wake up.

After speaking with the doctors we were able to get an update on her condition and sort of figure out what we have to look forward too in the next coming weeks and for the long haul.

From what the doctor understands, she has been having what they call break-through seizures, which they believe is what has been inhibiting her from waking up.

Thus they have started her on 2 new medications to stop the seizures from happening and hopefully she will wake up.

She had an EEG and an MRI done last week and it appears that her swelling has gone sown and they are not concerned at all in terms of swelling.

The good news is that she will live a quality life, just not how she had planned on doing so.

Now Dr. Dougherty's program is 8 weeks, this coming Thursday will be week 3. If she does not wake or have significant leaps of improvement we have to start looking for new places to go for sub-acute and long-term care. We are hoping that since she is being given those medications to stop her seizures, that she will at least wake up and she will be able to stay for a few weeks longer to give her time to develop and make significant improvement.

I know my mom is going to be fine. Yes, it wont be like she is going to wake up and everything is going to be like it was before, but she is still here and going to be able to share and enrich her life as she has ours. I know I miss her like all of you do. Keep praying.

Good day, God Bless and Happy Easter.