Luc was doing amazing last night :)

I went to see him.. We had a totally clear and mostly understandable conversation last night.. he slipped up once and threw in a few of those random words..
so i repeated to him what he had just said. then i asked him" does that make sense to you?" He looked at me and said " are you mocking me?".. I was kinda caught off guard and had to tell him no and that i just wanted him to know what he had said so he could work on his communication skills.. and that i would never mock him for trying to talk and having it come out wrong... he said oh, ok.. thanks. Then he gave me a kiss and asked why he wasnt allowed to leave.. so i asked him if he remembered his accident. he said no, what happened.. so i told him about his left orbital fracture and that he damaged most of his brain. then i told him he was in a coma for 3 weeks.. and asked him if he knew what that meant. He said yeah, my brain was asleep. yay.. he knew!!
then he asked how long ago the accident was.. i told him.. 11 weeks.. he said shit.. and then he started talking about going to rehab to get smart.. lol
As far as im concerned he is still smarter than some people without brain injury... :)
he still spells better than i do, and is still better at math.. lol

Luc is going to rehab soon

Ive been meaning to post this, but have forgotten everytime i come online. :)
was about a week or so ago that i got word that he will be leaving..
:( i will miss him... well not like i dont miss "him" everyday
hopefully around x-mas i will be able to take Karma for a visit to see her daddy.. bring him some presents.
And when i get there hopefully he will be doing somewhat better.. maybe he will be walking :)
maybe he will talk more clearly..
He tends to throw in a few random words when he speaks now.. Like ontario, underwear, aspects, respect, relative. They tend to be every other word out of his mouth.. its like he cant find the right word and ends up saying one of those words instead..
like one day he told me " my aspect hurts" so i asked what his aspect was, to point at it. he touched his nose and said " my aspect... my .. my ... my nose."
and when i ask him if he understands every word i say to him he says yes.. and when i ask if he cant always make sense when he tries to talk he said yes i cant..
I think he knows what he wants to say, but it doesnt come out the way it does in his head.
hopefully he will have improved in that area once i see him around x-mas...
till then though i go see him everyday.. trying to get him to talk normally. Giving him love and affection..
the physiotherapist told me he does much better and its easier for her to do her job when i am there with him.. but i also bribe him to take steps with kiss's :)
so i think that helps..
Oh.. the other day i went in and he was writing..
I asked him to write i love you and he did.. then i asked him to write my name.. he said no.. i asked him " please? it will make me happy, and in return i will do something to make u happy." Well.. like any normal male his age, his head is in the gutter.. cause he looked at me.. and said......
"suck my weiner".....!!!!!!!!!!!! The nurse that was standing there just about busted a gut laughing !! so did i actually..so i know my hubby is still somewhat the man he once was :)
more later... lol

first giggles

Not alot of time lately.

to be posting..
been back and forth from the hospital, visiting friends(to keep myself sane), raising my offspring, trying to keep myself together still... :)
Luc is still improving on a daily basis. He has recently started to move his left leg slightly when i ask him to do so for me.
he is also trying to open his left arm by himself.. mosly by pulling on it with his right hand. but he is still trying.
his sense of humor is kinda coming back..
His short term memory is totally gone.
can tell him the date and ten minutes later he doesnt know it.
:(
that is supposedly something that will come back(hopefully mostly) over time.
it seems like though if you tell him something for a week straight he gets it.
he knows he is in dawson creek now.. that im his wife, that we have a baby girl named Karma... etc..
for some strange reason he thinks my parents last name is my mothers maiden name though.. how he remembered the name "Tauffenbach" i will never know..
lol
anywho.. gotta run.. gotta get him some more cloths today, some plastic for the babies bedroom window(it snowed last night) and some weather stripping(my front door is drafty)
ttyal!!!

Luc is doing great :)

I went to see him again today.. :)
brought the baby :)
He knew who i was today.. im andrea maclean finally and im his wife..
Near the end of our visit I was holding Karma cause she was fussy... the nurse came in and asked luc who the baby was. He said "my daughter" then the nurse asked her name.. he told the nurse "karma"
:)
then she asked who i was, he said "Karma's mother." she asked him my name. he told her. then i asked but what am i to you, he said "my wife".. :)
he is doing friggin awesome :)
They have apparently been lifting him up and making him "walk" (kinda but not really, they hold him up) to the wheelchair when they put him in it.. easier than bringing out the lifting machine to get him into the chair :)
Only problem is right now, he thinks his friend Christine(whom he used to call his "sister"(he's an only child))is actually his sister.. he was very insistant that his sister christine came to see him in the edmonton hospital. :)
lol.. thats ok.. will remember stuff like that with time. :)
she will get a kick out of it when i tell her :)
anywho.. more later.

babble babble babble.. blah blah blah.

So, my munchkin is getting so big.. she smiles at me now.. for about 2 mins before she starts to cry.. lol
Luc is doing incredible now!! he has conversations.. he was kissing my friends hand the other day..i told him " Hey !! You're married!! No kissing other girls" to which he replied" no kissing other boys" to me :)
lol
He remembers me, but doesnt know we r married.. keeps telling me my last name is michaud.. my maiden name. but once i tell him we r married he seems to understand.. and when i ask him who i am he says " my wife."
They pulled his feeding tube out the other day, because he is eating smushy foods and drinking on his own. :)
well, you still have to feed him but he has taken the spoon away and tried a few times to feed himself.
Apparently all he has to be able to do now is have control of his bladder and bowel.. he can tell you when he is wet so it probably wont be long now till he can go to a rehab facility. :)
He will probably be transfered to the Glenrose back in Edmonton..
so far away from me, his baby, his mom, his dad.. basically everyone who loves him
but its for the best. then he will be able to eventually come home to me :)
I miss him. :(
but its getting there.
I just have to look at this as "it could have been worse" . He woke up from the vegitative state, he survived the crash... he'll make it home too.. :)