Today was tough. Darryl is now in state of ground hog day while we wait to see how he responds as the swelling and bruising in his brain resolves. I spent a lot of today and yesterday trying to quiz as many of his medical team as I could on the ins and outs of his status, other examples to compare Darryl to and possible progress for him. It is an experience I would compare to asking for your teacher to read out your school ‘C’ results when you know that your marks are nowhere close to what you need them to be. You want to know but you know the answer is going to hurt. It just leaves you feeling hollow.
In short Darryl has gone a little quiet in terms of his responses to commands and has started displaying other common and disconcerting characteristics of serious head injuries. For example his muscles are starting to tighten up and he has quite bad muscle spasms as a result. There are other physical complications that go along with lying immobile for such a long time which is why they are now hoisting him out of bed regularly and sitting him in a chair. The body heals better when it is upright and moving about.
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