5/6/10

The last few days have been pretty uneventful. Jill has been walking better each day and her short term memory is slowly coming back. The big challenge for Jill is to be patient and let herself heal. It has almost been two weeks since all of this happened and she has come so far that it is almost expected that she'll be back to normal in very short time. Unfortunately, this whole thing was very severe and it just doesn't happen that way. Today, Jill went in for her first visit to see her cardiologist (by the way I gave him the blog now that I've mentioned him by name). It was supposed to be a fairly routine visit where all of her wounds would be checked as well as the pacemaker defibrillator tested. The wounds looked good and the machine worked as it should as well, however, Jill's body didn't react well at all to the testing of the machine. Everyone left the room after the test and everything seemed alright and suddenly the room starting getting white and she just about passed out. The event gave yours truly a scare as she started to pass out in a similar manner to what happened at the game. The big difference this time was that she responded to words whereas she didn't at the field. In addition, she was still being monitored on the heart machine and her heart performed admirably throughout this little episode so that was a definite positive.

Everything ended up being fine and eventually Jill sat up and walked out to the car. As a matter of fact, she even wanted to do a quick chore before we went home so I knew she was back. We both came out of the appointment a little scared and little depressed. We are both confident that everything will be fine over time but the recovery is going to take longer as there are going to be stumbling blocks along the way. It is naive to think that you can knock on death's door and expect to be back to normal in a couple of weeks. She is doing really well so far, god bless, but we have to keep this whole thing in perspective and take this recovery process one day at time.