I'm so glad that he's going to be ok. And I suspect that the memory loss will be easier to cope with now that it's not a symptom of something scary, and that you both know it is finite. I just hope that it all gets better as quickly as possible.
It's amazing how quickly you readjust your perceptions of normal - I'd quite quickly sorted out a routine which meant I could work, visit Paul in hospital 2x a day, and keep most of Ellie's usual routine, and even manage to eat myself (which I realised I'd pretty much failed to do the first 2 days he was in hospital). Now he's back home, we're just readjusting to how he is and what he needs now. No doubt we'll have it all pretty sussed within 2 weeks, -which is when he has the follow up appt with the psychologist to help him develop adaptive coping strategies!
Just knowing that it won't get any worse than this, makes it all manageable, and knowing it will get better is just fab!
I did, but failed to ring you back as I was too busy dashing to and fro from the hospital, ringing Paul's relatives and all the other stuff attached to having someone in hospital (and remembering to feed me as well as Ellie!). I appreciated knowing you were thinking of us though!
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Just knowing that it won't get any worse than this, makes it all manageable, and knowing it will get better is just fab!
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Patrick x
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Reckon it sounds like you need a length of copper wire drilled into his skull so you can ground him out every now and again :-)
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