Sylvia's Journal

Dad had a tough day at the hospital (starting early early in the morning). His surgery was postponed (as mom already wrote) until he has another MRI and the neurological team figures out some medication and/or injury issues. Sita, Steve and I were there today (Sita drove out because I was having a tough time seeing dad so uncomfortable and confused). He had visits from the neurological and psychology crews, and later on in the day Steve went with him down to get a CT scan. By afternoon he woke up from an intense and restless sleep, we began to sort out some things with him and talk some of his wild and crazy dreams, he now understands they were not real, but is trying to sort out why and how they felt so real. We managed to keep him awake and hopefully entertained by eating some more smoothies (I tried to make some Gazpacho with the Magic Bullet blender today but definitely need to tweak the recipe), watched some tv and just talked. He was back to his regular condition (talking, joking around and just being Axel) by around 2:30 or 3 in the afternoon which was a huge relief.

Some awesome news today that dad was very excited about… he’s now officially a hospital pirate, he got an eyepatch today that is pretty cool (to help with some double vision problems…ooh that double vision).

Please keep holding dad in the light, especially at nights (his ‘witching hour’ as he calls it is from 12pm-6 or 7am, when he wakes up disoriented and confused and I think sometimes half in dreamland and half in reality). He was snoring soundly when i left (thank goodness he still doesn’t have a roommate), and looked to be actually resting.

I’m sure there is more I missed… it was a tough day but things seem to be back on track, hopefully the night is going smoothly (he’s got an awesome team looking after him tonight).

signing off for tonight
-tessa