Scattered Thoughts . . .

This evening, I mentioned to Sheila that I had another headache and touched the top of my head where the pain was radiating from...  the moment I touched my head where it hurt, I remembered that I, once again, whacked my head on something earlier in the day.  I hit it in the same place as my original mild TBI.   So, I was wondering about why I keep miscalculating the distance between the top of my head and stationary objects around me...  I think it is because I am still a bit dizzy from that first injury back in June.  Of course, now I am a little more dizzy after hitting my head again and I have another annoying headache too.  Headache is an ache with very mild throbbing...  maybe a 4 on the 10 point pain scale.  This pain is competing with my spinal pain for the most painful thing today.   For what it is worth...  perhaps to only document what happened exactly...  I whacked my head on a shelf in our bedroom.  I don't really know how I got so close to this shelf but, regardle

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