Onward, indeed! Thanks for the update, Carter, and so glad to learn that Jay is stable and improving. I suppose the silver lining in this experience is that now it is known that the tumor was cancerous so that it can be treated appropriately with radiation moving forward.

You and Jay continue to be part of my daily prayers. Hang in there.

Yep, hang in there buddy. :tup:

Don't forget to take care of yourself at this time. Don't make the mistake I made. Drove myself into the ground. Took me awhile to recover. :eek:

My brother I have been following your thread from day one. It was hard for me to make a post after i read about Jay.....
Now that you say she no longer need life support....
Im glad to make this post, to say I am happy things are going as well as they can be. God works in ways none of us can understand. Life will never explain the truth behind the untold.....
I pray one day.... Things for yourselves, will be, the way it once was:tiphat:
Im happy Jay is doing so much better:tup:

Great news.

Hey Tam. Thx once more for the update. Good news. Then some bad.
Try to roll with it. My oldest daughter had some issues at three years old. I look back and wonder how i got through. But i did.
Somebody else mentioned taking care of you. Lots of truth there. You will be unable to take of Jay if you get down so be aware of your own health. Physical and mental. Hugs. Keep us posted. Prayer for you. And your gal.

Lots of Easter blessings sent yall's way :)

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.

This is great news, Carter. Thanks for keeping us posted.

Great news indeed.

What you are saying is GREAT! :tup: She is rebounding fast. She will have good day/bad day. When she feels good. Don't let her do to much. Because the next day will be a bad day. You don't want to go through that. What you want to do is even out the days. ;)

:)

TY Tam for the details and peaks into your life. Still thinking of you and your gal.

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You and Jay are still in our prayers.

Wow. Just stumbled into this thread because I was not seeing the normal posts.
I wish the best for you and Jay for a speedy recovery.

Hi, Carter. Just checking in to ask how things are going. Better, I hope. You and Jay are still in my prayers.