eddiechan

It has been over 4 months that I have not posted any update here. Thanks God that my dad is fully recovered and he can remember most of thing. He is almost the man he was. I would like to thank all of you who have given me strength, support and advice and let me know more about SAH. and I truly wish your SAH family member can have a good progress in the coming days. With love and hope, all the barriers can be overcame. Compared with England, Hong Kong is 8 hours ahead. I hereby would like to wish you all Merry X'mas and Happy New Year and Good Health. Cheers, Eddie

My dad is recovered from pneumonia. The doctor informed us that he will be discharged on 1st Sept. Due to the narrow living area in Hong Kong, we plan to transfer him to an elderly homes near our home until he can walk better. My dad started to know that he is in hospital but he can't express it. He sometimes said he is in a government premises with some nurses working there. This is exactly the symptom of aphasia. When we mentioned to him that he is going to be discharged, he was happy at first but then he shaked his head. He thinks he is not that easy to be discharged as he understand his body is not very strong. (diabetes, renal dialysis) Anyway, a little progress that he got interested to some new things. 1. listening pocket radio (but he doesn't know how to turn it on and off) 2. learning to make a call on his mobile phone. (by pressing short-cut key). Eddie

Dear All, Thanks for all your supportive wordings. esp the Father and Son Ltd. - haha, quite special (As I am not a native speaker in English, I can guess it is an emphasis between me and my father). Well, I am not the only son my father has. I have sister and brother who are very concerned about dad's status. I am quite lucky that the our family bonds are quite strong. My dad still suffers from pneumonia and the status neither becomes worse or better. The doctor changed other type of injection for him. I have not mentioned to you all that my dad has fail kidneys and suffered from Vasculitis last year. He needs to take renal dialysis daily and his defensive system against bacteria or virus is definitely weaker than normal person. Hallucinations still happens but becomes less and more logical. He asked why there is a large jar of orange juice on the wall. But in fact, it is only a large sheet of orange paper sticked on the wall. He becomes a cute kid and respond in a funny way. just like a four or five-year-old boy who can't fully express himself in words. He becomes quite tired once he took the injection. He always gets sleepy and has his eyes closed. All in all, no prominent progress in this week and I hope dad's pneumonia can be cured asap. --------------------------------------------------- P.S. So surprise about the chinese message. Here I wish you all 祝大家 (I wish you all) 身體健康 (healthy) 萬事如意 (Everything comes true as you wish) Eddie

A good progress in this week. He opened his eyes more. and started to look at people in focus. He can feed himself. He speaks loudly even those some of them are non-sense. Hallucinations still exists. But something funny he said, "I found that the things I forget are more than I remember." But he didn't lose his temper about that. We can feel that he can sense he is in the hospital but when we asked him, he said he is in the mall or in the ship. Although we told him he is in the ward many times, he forget some time later. We showed him photos and ask him who are in the photos. Those who are very close to him can be recognized. For walking, everyday, physio trained him to walk with walking frame, not far, but around 20 meters each time. I think he will have more strength to walk farther. I asked him to write his own chinese name. He can read but somehow he can't write it very correctly. Just yesterday I asked him if he can remember some old chinese poems (He learnt many old chinese poems and readings at his school age). I speak the first line, and he can follow the 2nd line sometimes. Just a minor negative news is that he has a tiny pneumonia and he needs to take injection for one week.

Dear All, Thanks again for all your messages. I will try to make it as a habit to post my progress of my dad's status on regular basis. He still doesn't know where he is and hallucinations still happens. We asked him where he is now (hospital), he said he is a special place where he doesn't need to work. He still likes to have his eyes closed most of the times. I asked him to talk o us or we would leave. His facial expression told us that he want us to stay and at last he said he doesn't know anything that is worth talking about. To me and my mother, his brain has a tiny improvement this week. He will have a CT scan tomorrow and I hope there is no any other big problem. Eddie

Thank you all. Your words and advices are truly a big help to me. I have scanned thro' all the recent stories in the carers support section. Though all the go-through were painful, there are some progress after all, no matter it is big or small. And I hope my dad will also be like that, although it may take months or years. Just 3 days ago, my dad had another CT scan and the result told by the nurse that it becomes a little better. But how speciafic better he doesn't mention. Sounds a positive news. However, he recently started to make temper and start to say something more not logically, and sometimes he say something on his own imagination. He seems not able to recognize our family member, especially my mother. She sobbed when she look at him with his insane behaviour. I am a little worried if this situation would last until the end of his day.