Hey everyone, I am home for 2 hours-ish paying bills (life goes on... ) while another member of "Team Bellen" - Grandma Esther, is playing checkers with Wiley or better yet borring him into a nap.
Wiley handled his disappointment today wonderfully. He walked with the Physical Therapist and myself up to ICU to visit the nurses- with his helmet! Round trip is about a 1/4 mile.
Those ICU nurses are terrific and have a hard job. Apparently it is pretty rare when one of their head trauma patients walks in for a "hello". They assured me Wiley will be talked about around there for years. He came back to the room and played 2 whole songs on the guitar, one is an original he wrote this summer, the other is one he was practicing recently. A couple nurses from is floor filtered in to hear and watch, none could speak. Up till today he had been working on tuning in drop C and found that a block to playing. Our beloved OT John looked on the internet figured out how to tuned him to a drop D and though Wy wasn't entirely pleased, it suited to begin playing. Thanks John!
The term divine intervention was bantered about, I have no doubt. Thanks for all our your collective prayers, they were not in vain.
I saw Wiley's CT and it looks so much better even to me, but I can see why they decided to give it another week. In the big picture hanging out in the hospital another week is really nothing.
Thank you Betty for keeping everyone informed about Wy's days and progress. It is such a gift to us all.
State of the Parents up-date:
Timmers is running ragged from work in Sonoma and back. I know that the kind of work he is doing as well as the people he is woking with, who have been amazing and gracious, and knowing "team Bellen" is helping out at the hospital make it all do-able for him. And I am feeling better. Monday was 6 weeks and it was a significant "feel better" marker.
love, love,
Nancy
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