Tuesday

Brian seemed more discouraged today. He felt he was going backwards in his progress but he is not. 

He did get to video chat with Amari and she cheered him up. Amari is Courtney’s two year old daughter. 

 Brian continues to make slow improvements feeling has come back in his fingers and his right arm made great improvements. He says it is painful in his fingertips. Tracey asked him if it was like when your arm has been asleep for a long time and feeling comes back into your hand and it hurts just before you get the dreaded pins and needles feeling. He agreed that it did seem like that. He had a moment of feeling sorry for himself and said he should have never come to this hospital and Jean said why don’t you just get up and walk out then. That quieted him, can’t argue with that logic. 

They tried to take out the catheter but Brian was not able to use the hood catheter and when they put the internal one back in he filled up the container and the bag. They keep trying but I think it is too soon yet. 

They have said they are leaving the catheter in for now.