Morgan Taylor
is here safe and sound!! The flight was "uneventful" and she is
sleeping soundly. She looks great!! Today they will be doing scans and
tests etc. and forming a plan. It's great to have her here!
Ok,
you won't believe this because I still don't. My mom called while we
were here in Morgan's room and spoke to Troy and Troy said "do you want
to speak with Marcie?" And was handing me the phone and Morgan held her
hand up like she wanted to talk on it so I gave it to her and she says
"Hi Gramsy"I still can't believe it. It shocked my mom and when I got
the phone she is in tears on the other end. She also said "grape" when
asked what kind of juice she wanted.
Me
again...we are calling it a day. We did not have much sleep last night
because I was up tracking Morgan's flight and probably wouldn't have
slept anyway. So we need to get a fresh start. It's been a day of
great news but there is so much progress that needs to be made and if I
think about it it gets very overwhelming. That's how I know sleep will
help. So first, she speaking. It doesn't all
make sense bet hey, it's happening. Most of it is French. Which
cracks me up because I struggle so much with that language. The nurse
is always saying "are you speaking French again? I only understand
English" then she will
repeat in English...sometimes, it depends on her mood. They were asking
her questions and her body language is hilarious. They asked her "is
your mom in this room" and she shakes her head yes. Then she asks
"where is she?" Then she got this patronizing look on her face and
pointed to me without even looking. The nurse said "oh, you are going
to be fun!" So she spent the days doing scans, X-rays etc. the
neurologist said its all going to take time to recover. She still has a
lot of swelling and they won't be replacing her "brain flap" -strange
name- for a couple months at least. But really who knows because Morgan
is not going with the crowd on this one (go figure:) she is carving her
own path. The nurses and doctors here are saying they can't believe
how well she is doing and that the doctors is Tahiti saved her life by
removing the skull. She can hear, see, speak, memory is difficult, and
the day to day stuff lately is selective. We hope that will change when
as she heals. The physical part we know needs work but we don't know
the extent. So here is the other big news. We have heard about this
back, femur, hip, pelvis break since the beginning. Well the orthopedic
looked at her X-rays and says there is no need to have surgery. Where
the breaks are, they are not on a spot that will cause problems when
applying a lot of pressure and have already shown a lot of regenerating
and looks fine. Seriously, we were elated!! But, her collar bone is
really messed up and needs to be fixed with surgery. So only a collar
bone surgery for now!! Hurray!! They estimate rehab to be a month or two
at least...but we will see. We also found out there are other skull
fractures but again, it will just take time. The kids saw her today.
As much as we tried to prepare them they had a rough time at first. It
was emotional and has been all day. But Morgan has been funny with them,
trying to get each of them to remove her arm restraint. I play the bad
guy explaining over and over they can't and she gives me a look I have
seen many times before. I ask her if I am bugging her and she says
"yes" yeah, I'm ok with it. Because I love her so much and I know she
loves me. I was sitting with her and she took her hand and rubbed my
arm and the look she gave me, I know she is grateful we are there.
Happy New Year everyone!!! It's going to be an eventful one that's for
sure!!
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