As Day Sixty-Five ends, Jenny’s X-ray results came back and they show that her fractures are healing well but the X-ray machine at Riverview was not powerful enough to capture all the microfractures in certain parts of her body that were fractured so she has been booked next week to visit the more powerful X-ray machine all the way back at Health Sciences Centre where Jenny was first admitted on October 1, 2023. This will be the first time Jenny is going back to Health Sciences Centre since she left on November 16, 2023. Under normal circumstances Jenny would accompanied by a Health Care Aide for the appointment including the commute back and forth but I was given the opportunity to be her escort and I accepted. I cannot wait to bring her back to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit where she was for 11 days and then the Wards where she was for 36 days. Jenny will likely not remember the staff working there but I am curious to see if she has any sense of familiarity or memory.

I have a hunch the Health Sciences staff will remember Jenny with confidence because during her stay there I was “that guy” who kept asking the staff for all the information they could give me about her ongoing condition every single day. I would also like to use this opportune visit to apologize for pestering them each day.

Today at Speech and Language Pathology, for the first time Jenny was given a special tablet to use for her therapy. The program they had showed Jenny a word and 4 images underneath with one of them being what the displayed word was. Overall, she got about a little under half correct which I’m not sure if that’s considered good or bad since they were simple words and pictures but at least it set a base line of where her cognitive level is at.

The two errors that stuck out to me were when she was given the word “vehicle” and Jenny had to choose from the images of a flower, a car, a rectangle and a horse. Jenny chose the rectangle instead of the car. The second error was when Jenny was given the word “building” and the images were the Sun, a priest, a building and a soccer ball. Jenny chose the priest. I’m not quite sure how to feel about this because I know that for you and I we could easily associate the image of a car to the word “vehicle” very easily and the image of a building to a building.

Jenny’s brain just isn’t there yet and I have to learn to accept that for now all the while hoping it will improve.