and during certain times of the day very big planes fly over, but for the most part it is pretty quiet. At 5:30 this morning somewhere near here started their construction work, we managed to ignore it.This morning the trailer got a bath. It was very badly needed. Tomorrow is the truck’s turn. We were looking very pigpenny. The trucks engine light went off, so the bad fuel has worked its way through. It is still getting new filters.
We left for downtown around 11. Have to give the traffic time to die down. It took us about 30 minutes and with our trusty map we had no problem finding where my Aunt Gretchen is staying. It was good to see her and she was very glad to see us.
What a huge medical conglomeration Houston has. From the Texas Med Center to the Shriner’s Hospital and every other kind of specialized hospital all in this several block area. We walked to the hospital Darcy is in. She was moved to the Rehab floor. Because she has brain trauma it will be awhile before she can go home. Her brains neurons have been stretched and some have died completely during the accident and the brain needs retraining. She will be on this floor a minimum of 7 days and a maximum of 14 days. Then it will depend on her progress what happens then. It isn’t uncommon though for someone with her level of trauma for the brain to take 3 months to heal(she won’t be in the hospital that long) and get retrained. They have just started all the therapy’s so it’ll be several days before we know how she is progressing. Her hair is growing back and the nasty gash on her head is almost completely healed. She was happy to see us, but she is like a broken record with wanting anyone who visits to get her out of there, to the point of cranky meanness but that is normal we were told. The frontal lobe is the emotional control center and when that has trauma the emotions just flow with no control so she acts like a 2 year old does because she can’t control her emotions. It takes getting used to and is hard on her mother who gets the brunt of it all. Her friend Liz was there for awhile also and got her to eat a bite of her dinner. She isn’t eating, but that may be due to the meds she is on.
We stayed until almost 5 and then walked back to Gretchen’s, visited awhile waiting for the traffic to ease up. We headed out at 6:45 and cruised along until we were about 10 miles from our turn and crawled along in the traffic, but it only took us about 15 minutes longer.
We are really tired again today. We did our yoga for the first time this year and got in some fresh air with the walks to and from the hospital, but we are still playing catch up.
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