So this story starts end of April, John & Nancy live in VT, John turned 72 in May.
They have a house in the Naples, Fl area and were ready to come home. During the trip home John was having stroke like feelings, they stopped in Charlotte & their daughter Sarah hopped on a plane to Charlotte to finish driving them home. Sarah is a RN.
John was going to the doctor & getting his meds adjusted, Sarah found one of the meds had a warning that they cause those. Sarah & I were texting so I knew what was going on with Uncle John.
May 26th at 7:15 PM Sarah texted me. Dad has a bad bleed in his brain & is in Surgery, it’s serious, I’ll keep you posted ! 5:35 am I got a texted he made it, now we wait to see the damage done. 11:48 Dad is still alive & stable. he seams paralyzed on the left side. that night I got a text Dad is breathing on his own & saying a few words !
Tuesday the 28th he knows where he is & who the stupid president is. they were talking rehab already.
So at times things were slow between text, but John was improving daily.
June 22nd I got a video of him moving his lower leg.
the 24th got a picture of him sitting up in bed, he looked pretty good for what he was going thru.
June 27th they moved him to a new rehab place in Concord, NH. got another picture he was trying to smile but had a ½ of a face look.
June 30th he was outside in a wheel chair, & looking better yet.
Things are improving daily still.
I would try to send a good morning text everyday. Friday I got a reply “I. know you?
I sent him my name & LMAO. I was on a road trip to get tubing & John sent 5 messages to me. Then Nancy called, She wants me to come up to help her, John is set to come home July 25th.
I’ll trying to be there the 25th but I don’t think I can finish the 2 projects I got going on, but I can do it by the 1st of Aug.
John has 2 daughters & a son. All of them are doing what it takes to help dad, they could just use more help. So I’m excited to be asked & ready to get on the road to Vermont ASAP ! I feel useful again !
Saturday morning Sarah called, she said they found an urinary infection that has been causing problems for a couple of weeks, when they started treating it everything started improving. One of the things John wants to be able to do again is play golf ! So it will be interesting to see how that goes, Sarah thinks it is possible. I didn’t ask if the urinary infection was part of the brain swelling. I’ll write an e-mail to find out. The phone call was excellent, but I don’t talk very often on a phone because I have a problem hearing & get confused trying to understand.
I called John for the first time 8:00 pm Saturday night. He sounded good. voice a tad slow. He said the greatest thing happened today, Nancy & him were talking & his left leg came alive ! He started having feeling in & & started moving it out of nowhere ! He said I can’t wait to get to therapy to build on using his leg.
I asked how many hours he got, 3 hours split vocational & physical. He said the vocational was hard, learning to read again & that kind of thing but he is doing good in both areas. He was happy I called. He thanked me for making the plans to come help him.
Annah & family will visit today & he was looking forward to seeing the grandkids.
it was so good to talk to him.
Thanks for reading.