Hello everyone. It’s
Drew with the blog tonight, and I know its been a while since I’ve done one, so
I have a lot of thanks to give. So many
people have done so much for my dad, and me and we really appreciate it so
much. I know now that I have many
friends that are there for me, and lots of people that are willing to help me
out. I’ve had too many meals to count
and occasionally I’ve had to have friends over to help me eat all of my leftovers. They clean the fridge, and I make them help
me clean the house before they leave, so we both win. So I’ve literally had enough generosity given
to me, that I have to share it. I’ve had
so many people give me gifts of money and invitations, that I’d love to name
them all, but I’m not sure that I could even remember them all. So thank you to all that have provided your
help and prayers.
Well my dad
left off on Wednesday and I’ll take it from there. Thursday was a very slow day for Mom; she
slept through most of it. My dad said
that there was a nursing situation, and it caused him to be a little late
getting back out to Troy that afternoon.
Mrs. Rohloff stayed in Ann Arbor for the night so that Dad could come to
my National Honor Society induction.
Before the ceremony, we went out to dinner with the Harfields, the
Harrisons, and the Paquets. After the
ceremony, we went next door from Athens to St. Anastasia for a Novena, hosted
by the Pales, in order to pray for Mom, as Dad mentioned in the previous
blog. These will be held nightly through
next Friday, from 9:00 to 9:30PM. Dad and I were very excited to see some of
our friends there that night, including some of my close friends Ian, Patrick,
and Stephen, and my girlfriend Taylor and some of her family came along with
us. I know that since then, many others
have gone every night, and we all really appreciate it and we definitely feel
the prayers.
Friday, I
arrived in Ann Arbor at 7:00PM, and my dad got there earlier that
afternoon. Mrs. Collins also visited mom
earlier in the day too. When I got to my
mom’s room, she smiled at me, said hi, and responded to me in a way that I
haven’t seen in 15 weeks. There’s no
doubt that there’s been immense improvement since even Monday, and she reminds
me a lot of the very first day at Beaumont when she got her very first dose of
Ativan. I almost feel like Ativan is the
only thing still separating us from our mother and wife. We also were told on Friday that the UofM
doctors and the Mayo doctors were going to have a conference call to determine
what was the plan of action.
Saturday
morning we woke up (slowly) and went to see Mom, who was just as responsive as
the night before. She still isn’t making
all that much sense, but we know that Ativan has that effect on her, and it’s
still a great improvement from just a few days ago. We received news from the doctors that Mayo
says that UofM has done everything they would do with the exception of three
tests. We’ll be running these tests in
the coming days, but it’s safe to say that we will probably not be going to
Mayo. I think my dad is more comfortable
about this, because that means they can stay closer to home and the
support.
Please
continue to pray for us, we appreciate everything you’ve all done. Sorry that this was such a short blog, but it
is very late and Dad and me are almost dead tired. Thanks once again to everyone and all you’ve
done for us.
Drew
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