Out

As it turned out, my previous blog posts came in very useful as a reference for what happened and when.  Otherwise we would have no clear recollection.  I shall do the same this time and pray it would never be needed.

Day 1

0830 Hubby was taken for the surgery at 9am which was expected to take 2 hours.  

1300 Wheeled to the the HDU.  

1530 Hubby woke up properly.  And yayy his arm was functioning!  It could be moved and the hand could grip.  A far cry from the previous time when the whole arm was unresponsive.  

1600 Had a series of seizures.  Doc said that was expected and prescribed extra anti-seizure meds.  Hubby slept a lot but was able to have porridge for dinner.  

I went back to my parents' place for the night.

Days 2-3

Physiotherapists came over to the room.  Hmm there were certain limb movements he couldn't do.  Which translated to him not being able to walk properly.   While he could move the arm, coordination was bad.  Which rendered the arm completely unusable.  

Days 4-5

Went for physio at the hospital gym.

Walk, legs, walk

Hubby got disheartened a few times.  But I told him, things are definitely not worse.  Compared to starting at Step1 previously, he is now quite a few steps ahead.  He was able to recover previously and he could do that now too.

Day 5 evening
Discharged.  Other family members happened to be unavailable so it was up to me to get him out.  The  discharge process took a while.  Dinner arrived at 530pm (earlier in the Ramadan month) so we ate it.  Hubby wanted to go to the toilet before leaving - I had a scare when he didn't sit properly on the toilet chair and fell to the floor.  Luckily he seemed fine.  But I was very worried how he would get back home without another incident.

8pm++ Made it home and to his bed. Quite a few things more to do, and tired out, but yay for us!