Happy day

After Michael's upbeat visit, Rosie got up, had a shower and got dressed in day clothes. She is already walking independently again and we went to the ward physio room where she went through all the activities the physio had done with her last week.















Anne, Rosie's nurse today, came to remove her hat. I missed this last week when the doctors did it but apparently they just pick the whole thing up in one piece and lift it off. But Anne unwrapped the wide bandage instead. Rosie's hair was extremely stiff and hard and a little damp with brain juice so she insisted I brush it out so she could look human.







After more walking about, the mobile ultrasound lady came and did the leg and arm check in Rosie's room.



Faith came to visit this afternoon with sushi and a new puzzle for us, a beautiful Michaelangelo painting.




In the room we had a multimedia afternoon with the puzzle (circular which makes it satisfying finding pieces regularly), tennis on the TV and osie doing SIMs 3 on her laptop with help from me reading the words.










Rosie was very upbeat herself today, winning Gin and Up the River, getting more comfortable with recognizing the cards and some objects. She said she was happy and had decided she would just be happy for the whole time even if she was doing nothing. I told her that was an amazing life lesson that some people never learn, that only you can decide to be happy. Jessye and Sophie groaned...

Round 2, day 3

Rosie rang me at 6:15am having been woken by a nurse and unable to go back to sleep. I was already up and planning to go over early today anyway because I wanted to be there when Miika and David did their rounds as there was a possibility they were going to remove Rosie's hat today. Jessye was still asleep but Rosie and I took a wheelchair and went out to the 3rd floor garden. She wanted to take pen and paper and try to write. She wrote "I want to see if I can write". That was easy and natural for her but when I wrote "But can you read?" that was like Egyptian hyroglyphics to her - she couldn't read at all. We told Miika and David about this and they were concerned. We will have to wait and see if things shift during the coming days but it's possible this will require rehabilitation work to come. They said they wouldn't take the hat off today.

We went down to the cafe for hot chocolate and Rosie had a sausage roll for breakfast. When we came back, she wanted a nap so she and I nodded off for an hour. Then Micheal just came with the troops and had a completely different attitude. He said we'll lose the hat today, tested Rosie on several objects, some of which she got right and others not, made her repeat after him "no ifs, ands or buts" which came out as "no withs, ands or buts" and told her to touch her right ear with her left forefinger, which she did. We told him about being able to write but not read. He said it's early days after surgery and she'll be fine. He also said she should get up and about as much as she can and not nap during the day too much. So with that pep talk, off we go!