Day 45 - Saturday January 28, 2012

It's funny how big of a deal remembering the date is.  I mean, that's always a focus here at rehab.  Do you know where you are, why you are here, and what is the date.  So far, Bridgett can't remember any of this on a regular basis.  From time to time she will get the year or the month correct, but never consistently.  After doing some reminding, she might remember where she is for a matter of minutes.  But, then the memory is gone.  From time to time it seems like a switch has been switched on and she seems to remember things.  But these are short in length.  The hope is that these snippets get bigger and bigger and more frequent.  For the past few days Bridgett's peg has been bothering her.  It has been red.  We have stopped using the ab binder during the day in hopes that it will hurt less and be less irritated.  Every day she says it hurts.  Today when we looked at it, there was a greenish, white-ish discharge.  We called the nurse, who called the doctor to look at it.  He said to clean it and watch it and said it could get much worse.  He wasn't overly concerned.  Hopefully it will start looking better soon.  There is no hope to get it out sooner.  He will contact the surgeons that placed it if it continues to worsen.  Today was a short rehab day, with the weekend staff.  Rehab started late and Bridgett was able to sleep in until 9:00.  She has been tired lately, so that was good.  It was another afternoon with all of Bridgett's sisters and lots of laughing.  Jenn brought up a bunch of pictures of Bridgett that we all looked through.  It is very good for Bridgett to see these pictures of herself and try to remember events and people.  By evening, she told everyone she loved them and they could go because she was going to sleep.  You could tell that all the laughing and visiting was getting to be a little too much for her.  Arrianne, Stephany and I left and Jenn and Mark stayed to visit quietly.