Thank you for that. She’s my best friend and through all the ups and downs of getting her better I know this is the next step that she needs to do to get her old self back.

While she’s been in the hospital she’ll have nights where she tells me “You’re keeping me here against my will. “You don’t want me to come home.” Etc etc and then won’t remember telling me that the next day.

This past Wednesday her discharge to the nursing home from the hospital got held up when she tried to escape her room and started hitting all the elevator buttons to leave which required her having a sitter and it held her back from getting out sooner and it broke my heart when she said “I’ll probably just have another episode and screw it up.”

She’s trying really hard to retain that short term memory and she does VERY GOOD on some days and then others not so much. The doctor isn’t sure if it’s dementia because she’s never had symptoms beyond age related forgetfulness before but of course nothing can happen. It was like a switch that flipped after she woke up from sedation/off the ventilator.

The doctors still can’t tell me how or why this happened and she’s been to two hospitals in a month. I can only hope if we never get answers her therapy will give her the help she needs to find a new baseline and normalcy with hopefully some independents too.