25th of September

7.58 Tuesday morning. Jaana woke up during the night and did some exercises with Jari. She really posses the will poser for all physical rehabilitation exercises. As there were a lot of visitors in the evening she got tired and confused a few things, but this I do as well when I am tired. This morning after the nurses cleaned the bed, she managed to quickly pull out the tube through her mouth and the catheter, so I need to have a word with the doctors. They want to restrict her movements, but as you can imagine, I have refused that.

3.59pm Tuesday afternoon. Back from hospital/school. This morning Jaana was a bit sleepy again when I came in, but after 1h rest or so, it was all happening again. She pulled out the food tube a couple of time and one had to be quick. The doctors are saying that they will start tomorrow with a few teaspoons of drink/food to steady increase it so that we can remove the tube in a few days time. The IV with medicine will be removed tomorrow or at latest the day after. This will increase her mobility and make the rehabilitation easier.
Another huge thing happened today. She has indicated before that she wanted to get out of the bed. Today, I had a reclining chair brought over. As she swung her legs of the side of the bed getting ready to move over to the chair, I saw what she wanted. She put her arms around my neck and I told her to push. She stood! Without me supporting her weight at all, just assisting her with the balance. We also tried one very small step which she made with great effort. This required a huge amount of energy and she sat down again, laid down and fell asleep almost immidiatly. I could hear her crying silently (of joy) as she was standing leaning a bit on me. She realized she could stand!
This evening Jari is leaving Singapore to go back to Sweden. I take this opportunity to thank him for the best support possible! He is a very calm, analytical and caring person who has been invaluable. Thank You!
Tomorrow, I have arranged for a private nurse who worked in the ICU to come and watch over Jaana during the nights. As this is only from tomorrow, I will spend the night at the hospital before Hakan comes in the very early morning.

7.30pm Tuesday evening. Jari and I are off back to Gleneagles. An occupational theorapist has visited in the afternoon and Jari though she had some very interesting points. To train Jaanas short and long term memory, everyone who visits needs to help with exercises like telling stories and asking questions shortly after, showing old pictures and asking questions etc. I will put up some rough ideas as soon as I have spoken to her. I will post a guide on her door as well which visitors can read just before entering her room. Well, that is it for the time being.

9.08 Tuesday evening. The final information for the evening. Jaana is sound asleep and will hopefully be as such until tomorrow morning.