Day Twenty-Eight

As Day Twenty-Eight ends, Jenny’s vitals are almost all normal. Her white blood cell count is 7.7 which means the infection is cleared and she just needs to finish her antibiotic dosage. They did not determine what exact type of infection it was, but at least it’s gone. When I walked in to see Jenny today, she was not sleeping in the normal bed position but to my surprise she was completely sideways. She is very small, so it was very easy for her to shift sideways in the bed. As the evening went on, the nurses and health care aides would keep repositioning her to the normal sleeping position and she would eventually just start turning until she was sideways. I kept asking her why she does this and she replied “I don’t know”. The other phrases she said to me today were very heartbreaking, especially after the ones she said yesterday. Today she also said “I should not have gone.”, “I should have called.” and “I should have gone home.” I know she is reliving the crash over and over again inside her mind as it is by far the most prominent thing she talks about whenever she’s able to convey whole thoughts. It is agonizing enough to see Jenny in so much physical pain but to know she’s heavily suffering even further in her mind is just excruciating. I go over my thoughts about this in more detail with the latest entry of Jenny’s Journal at https://jennysrecovery.ca/jennys-journal/entry-06-hopes-and-dreams/

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