Escape

This weekend Marie escaped from rehab! She was granted a weekend pass! First, our apologies to those who we didn't see (which were almost all of you) however we were keeping things very low-key on purpose. We wanted the weekend to be as relaxing as possible, and it was definately that!

We left here on Friday and Marie spent the night at her apartment with her Mom. Her landlord Diny, and Karen the tennant in the other apartment gave Marie quite a warm welcome with cake and flowers! Marie said she had a good night sleep, and she even slept in - for the first time in a long time. Sleeping in definately doesn't happen in the rehab facility with all of the commotion happening in the morning, not to mention that breakfast comes at 7am!

On Saturday, we had breakfast at a restaurant near Marie's house and then headed to the family cottage. We had a very quiet get together at the cottage, and then headed to our grandparent's house who live nearby to stay the night. We also spent Sunday with them at their house. I know they were happy to see her!

Everyone is commenting on how well Marie looks, and noticing how she is gaining strength and stability every day. One part of her appearance that she is not too keen on is that she must wear a hockey helmet when walking around. She has to wear it to protect her precious brain from an accidential bump, which could be very serious even if slight. Marie will need to wear the helmet until her skull is replaced in 2-5 months from now. Even though totally out of her comfort zone (as it would be for most of us I'm sure), Marie has kept her sense of humour about everything. An example of this is that when eating out or going into a public place, Marie says that she just wants to shout out " GO LEAFS GO!!!".

If I had to guess Marie's favourite part of the weekend, I'd have to say all of the food! She definately took full advantage of all of the non-hospital food!

This week's upcoming events will involve more intensive physio, occupational therapy as well as a few small outings in the evenings.

I hope all of your weekends were just as fun!

Take care,

Laura

PS) Marie finally has got the follow up appointment from her neurosurgeon at Sunnybrook. The appointment will take place the week after next. We are hoping for some answers on why the stroke occured, although we are guessing that if there was anything significant in their findings, they would have called us by now.