UPDATE 6/13

It has been a long week trying to get answers to what happened on Sunday and what is our next step. The best I can describe is that Michele had too much fluid “flem” in her chest and it grew to a point to infection. We can call it bronchitis or pneumonia but both are not really confirmed. It was a slight case but enough to stop her breathing. The good news is that this episode does not stop us from proceeding on her bone flap operation. Today Michele had another ride by ambulance to Swedish Medical Center for 2 CT Scans and 2 MRI’s. The 1st CT scan is to look at her brain to see how her shunt adjustment went. Well Dr John has the disk and from what I can tell it looks good. Don’t hold your breath on me though as it only took me 40 days to get her adjustment that I fought for and I may not be right! After all it took her 2 hours to wake up after the adjustment that took me 40 days to get done. The second CT scan was to measure her for the bone flap for a prosthetic. I also have this scan but it is from a male person with the same last name. Go figure a hospital will make a mistake. I was told they never do for the last 4 months. Michele had an MRI and an MRA and this is out of my league but I can tell you it was an experience and I was in a chair rubbing Michele’s feet so she knew I was at her side at all times. The MRI’s took about 45 minutes where the CT’s took about 45 seconds.

Michele is very aware of her surroundings right now and can track people in the room. She answers questions with her eyes blinking. She can wiggle her right toes and move both of her fingers a little. I have updated her on the most important issues lately with the children and of course the most important person her husband! I hope and pray she understands and can handle our upcoming struggles we both have to go through to get her well. I still plan to have her home after her bone flap operation which should be at the end of the month.

Within the next week I will be sending emails from a new account for Michele so that each person that reply’s will go directly to Michele. I have already saved every email regarding Michele and have over 2000 pages in a book. Michele was recently donated a new I-Pad so I am in the process of setting it up and soon all new emails will come from her account so when you reply it will go directly to her email even though I have saved all other emails to date. My goal is to have her able to see, hear and read either by herself or by the help of the people around her each day. Eventually she will have full control and start emailing each of you in response. Her new email is miko@pinnaclelease.com

I would like to ask each of you all to take the extra time to send a quick email over the next 2 days to Michele’s new email account miko@pinnaclelease.com just so I can save your contact info to her new computer since I cannot transfer the emails very easily. A simple email will help greatly and avoid having to input each and every person.

Thank you
John