26th of September

7.52am Wednesday morning. A very quite night. Jaana slept through the whole night, just woke up once or twice, looked around and fell asleep again.

3.57pm Wednesday afternoon. Jaana woke up around 9am and was very active for 2.5h. We practiced a lot of movements, then the occupational therapist, physio therapist and last the speech therapist came. After that she was absolutely exhausted and fell asleep for until 2pm. You should not worry that she get over-worked, since they take it easy on her if she is extremely sleepy, but it is also necessary for her to be awake during the days. It is only the easy way out to sleep all day, but not a lot will come out of it. We need to train her brain to be more awake, since the "sleeping" part of the brain was also quite affected.
When I left around 2.30, and Parmi was there, the occupational therapist came back. Parmi later called me to say that Jaana had walked with a 'rullator' minus wheels from her bed to the sofa and then back (2x3m)! HUGE thing.
As you can imagine there are plenty of moments of fear and minor setbacks (if you wonder why she is not running a marathon by now), but this is not the forum for that. I want to focus on all (any they are many) good improvements (and way out number setbacks).
I have been asked to come up with ideas to exercise Jaanas short and long term memory. Thus I have brought photos, her handbag and things like this for her to remember and talk about. I will put a sign on her door for visitors before entering her room declaring the following.
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Dear Friends,

I would like to thank you for visiting Jaana! As a further favor to her, please join in the effort in restoring her long and short term memory. Do this by telling her a story, what you have done today etc and then ask her a few minutes later about what you told her. For the long term memory, bring photos, talk about trips, dinners, family and ask her what she remebers. All these tasks will actions will greatly improve her condition as she recovers. If come up with other ideas, this is obviously fine too as we should try to take each visit a small mental exercise as well.
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Finally, her catheter was removed today so that is also one less thing bugging her. They have to monitor this closely since there might be issues with that being removed as well.
8.42pm Wednesday evening. This is first the night we have a private nurse for her. Her name is Anisha and used to take care of the patients in the ICU when Jaana was there. If Jaana would wake up early, Anisha will start with some light exercises to stimulate the muscles. I think things are calming down a bit and there is very much a plan in action for the rehabilitation. Jaana still have a light fever (37.4) but she is getting antibiotics for her urin infection and panadol for the fever, so it should not be an issue.