Prayers

Prayers for Jaime, her family and you will be going up now and in the middle of the night when I awake stressing over my own issues which pale to hers right now.
Let us know how she fares

Sending Prayers

Thank you everyone. I know for certain that she would appreciate these prayers.

She's in my heart and prayers.

Healing vibes and positive thoughts to your friend and her family!

Sending prayers for your friend.

Let us know when you hear anything

Hi Park

Sorry to hear about your friend.

I am sending healing thoughts her way.

Hibee

Thank you everyone. So far there hasn't been any change, which I guess is a good thing. Because she went days without having another stroke, they allowed her solid food yesterday. Her husband believes that she could be in the hospital for another couple weeks. I guess she has almost no movement on her left side, but has wiggled the fingers and toes.

I haven't talked to her. She's very depressed and she feels really embarassed. She's also going through a couple types of withdrawl. She is/was a smoker (she better quit or I'll kick her butt) and she has been prescribed pain meds for a long time and her husband indicated to me that she may have been teetering on abusing them, so I think she's having a hard time. They were giving her no pain meds initially because they needed to monitor her, but I'm told she got some last night and was feeling better.

Her husband told me that she'd like to see me, so I'll be going down to see her on Saturday and hopefully that'll cheer her up a bit.

Thank you for the continued prayers.

Thanks S.C.,

In regards to hospitals, I'm great. I feel really safe in hospitals and I'm very trusting of doctors, so there's no place I'd rather be if something was wrong.

However, I am a little anxious to see my friend without the movement on her left side and I assume hooked up to some machines and what not. I tend to take the illnesses of others and apply them to my life and then worry about the "what if it happens to me" type of thing. I'll talk to my therapist on Friday because she knows this has got me a little wound up.

Post Edited (Park12) : 4/1/2015 5:37:39 AM (GMT-6)

Ahh! Good tip! I'll ask her that for sure. Thanks S.C.!!

Hi Friends,

Please continue to pray for my friend Jaime. I went to visit her today and was a little shocked. While her doctors say she shows great promise, I was not prepared for how "off" things would be.

She is able to command her left leg to move, which is a huge step from when she got there, but I watched as they asked her to move her left hand and she said she was, but it didn't even twitch. When they asked her to shrug her shoulder, she shrugged the right, but not the left.

As far as mental deficits go, she is pretty sharp, but you can tell that there are long pauses before she comes back with a comment and she is mixing things up here and there.

My husband and I have both been pretty upset about this today and he didn't even see her. The confirmation from me was all it took for him to really see how serious things were.

Please keep her in your prayers. Today she was being moved to a step down room and if all goes well, next week she will be moved to a rehab facility for a month.

Thank you all!