Scattered Thoughts . . .

I continue to have cognitive difficulties and overwhelming fatigue due to my mild-TBI.  I whacked my head on a low 2x4 brace while building our new trash shed back in early June of this year.  I briefly grayed-out...  knees buckled as I fell toward the ground...  then came to seeing stars in my vision.  Then, I whacked my head about half a dozen more times in the summer months while working around the house... same area of my head too! This fatigue I am experiencing is both cognitive and physical.  I often forget about this injury but I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out why I've been so completely exhausted lately...  why I can't even write...  why I have no energy to even talk. I struggle with overwhelming fatigue with my primary illness too but I usually have other symptoms accompany the fatigue.  These other symptoms are clearly related to my primary illness so I don't question the overwhelming fatigue at those times.  Lately, I am struggling with on

Sue's ICU room reflected in the windows overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains. It has been a couple of days of serious reflection and I even captured a photo of this in a literal sense. We just can't seem to break away from the hospital! We certainly are on a consistent roll between me, Sheila and now Sheila's mom, Sue. The past couple of days have been spent at the hospital with Sue and we expect to do the same through the long weekend ahead.  Sue certainly has had a rough couple of days and she really had all of us worried yesterday! (And there are a lot of "us" in Sue's life!) The next few weeks promise to be quite rough for her as she continues to slowly heal. On the positive side, Sue is now stable and, hopefully, steadily healing.  Sue slipped on the ice right outside their garage yesterday morning... slammed to the ground... left with visible bruising, a bloodied head and a relatively small bleed on the brain. She doesn