Originally Posted by Mt Tam I am

I thank everyone for their support. It is tougher than I realized entering. I want to thank everyone for their prayers too. They seem to have been answered to a great extent. Every day Jay has gotten better by strides. Since Sunday when she gave us a little trouble (2 hours of mental anguish) about leaving with me and coming back in the morning to start therapy, Jay is happy.

Rehabilitation was to last 3 weeks. She is blowing through all tests they give her. Tuesday she was allowed to walk on her own unaided, and Thursday she walked one mile with a PT. She is to be discharged Saturday after I get a course in how to take care of her. I assume this means giving meds and anything else. This is the fastest discharge from St Mary's, according to her doctor and nurses.

Originally in order to discharge her, her social worker, whom I have never met, needed to visit my home and make sure it was safe for her. This talk has disappeared.

The other part of her recovery is that I can barely tell she just had brain surgery. Her conversation, that just a week ago, was showing signs of a problem has nearly vanished. I do feel like I helped here. We have spent hours every day working on putting the memories in order. More on the phone throughout the day and night. I told her early on that she can call me at any hour and she has. So 2AM, 4 AM calls were the normal until she no longer needed the comfort of talking to me at that hour.

She still has one black eye and it is shut. We still have radiation to get through, too but these seem like speed bumps compared to what has just occurred.

My new joke I tell is: "Do you know what is better than sex after 3 weeks?"

Sleep.