As Day Fifty-Six ends, today marks the end of Jenny’s second weekend at Riverview. She has no therapy activities today so instead I took her on a grand wheelchair tour through every (allowed) corner of the complex and ended at the Solarium – a large circular shaped room built in a way where the sun can shine through.

For the rest of the evening we had a calm, uneventful day watching shows I knew Jenny had already watched at least once but had no current memory of in the hopes it would help jog her memory back.

As Day Fifty-Seven ends, the Riverview team have decided to finally remove Jenny’s pick line from her left arm that’s been there since the night of the accident back on October 1, 2023. In a symbolic way of showing just how little I understand of the many things happening around me, it is only on this very last day of Jenny’s pick line that I learned “pick” line is an abbreviation. Everyone has been saying “P.I.C.C.” line which stands for “Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter” line.

As my final homage to the now correctly acknowledged P.I.C.C. line and for those like me who are just now only learning what it really stood for, a P.I.C.C. line is used for giving medication such as antibiotics, blood transfusions and/or I.V. fluids directly into your veins but can also be used in reverse and quickly take blood samples. I also learned a P.I.C.C. line is not just some small needle that is inserted into your vein but it is an extremely long, super thin needle that not only goes inside your vein but it follows the entire vein all the way directly into your heart.

As for Jenny’s activities today, she was brought into S.L.P. (Speech & Language Pathology) and participated in the usual questionnaires but today she was given a new and more difficult activity called “Cancellation” where she would get a sheet filled with symbols and would have to identify then cross out all copies of a certain symbol within the pattern. I believe that this specific activity would be quite difficult for anyone, even without a traumatic brain injury.

During Jenny’s first week of rehab I made sure to clear out my schedule as much as possible so I could be there and support her every step of the way but as today begins Jenny’s second week of rehab I could no longer be present for all activities. I had to leave before her scheduled Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy. I continue to visit Jenny every day but more often than not I can only arrive in the evening after all her therapies are complete.