Monday July 2, 2012
It's Monday, I am at work this morning, which is pointless
since my mind is not here right now. Thank God my boss is on vacation this week
so we don’t have patients and it will be easier to go if i need to.
Andrew had a bad evening and night last night.
It sounds like all day he was doing pretty good, he enjoyed
his visit with Uncle Mike and Trich. Uncle Matt had him laughing, his real
laugh, we haven’t heard that since before this whole thing started, so I can
imagine it was good for my parents to hear. Grandma Lois had a visit, Andrew
was happy to see her; he showed her more affection then anyone so far. Jessica
came for a visit as well. Andrew enjoyed all the pictures Jess showed him.
When Mike and Trich left Andrew tried going with them. When
Uncle Matt left he followed him to the elevator and tried leaving. My mom had
to have a couple guys go get him and put him in a wheelchair and wheel him back
to his room. It seemed like ever since he tried getting on the elevator his
mind was set on “I’m getting the hell out of here!”
He seemed anxious the whole visit with Grandma, he wanted
her to take him home. He kept waving at her like, “Come on Grandma, let’s go!”
(I am going to try to get the story straight from what I was
told by my mom, but I wasn’t there).
Grandma left the room while Andrew was in the bathroom, she
went to the bathroom down the hall. When Andrew was done he noticed Grandma had
left, he pushed his way through my mom, screaming and went out to the hall.
Once again he darted straight for the elevators and once again had to be
escorted back to his room. My mom had told his nurse earlier he seemed agitated
and anxious to get a sedative to relax him more. The nurse said she needed a
doctor’s order so they were waiting on a sedative for quite a while.
In the meantime Andrew was sitting on the couch in his room
and he tried leaving, once again. Grandma was able to move to the other side of
the room, and Mom, Dad and Liz were trying to restrain him. A staff team was
called in to help, it took about 6 staff people, my Mom, Dad and Liz to hold
him down while they waited for a sedative. He pulled out all the stops,
kicking, hitting, and biting, he fully tried getting out of there. They were
able to give him a sedative but his adrenaline was pumping so hard it wasn’t taking
effect. The restraints were put on him so he couldn’t get out of his bed and a
nurse came in to try to talk to him. My mom said this nurse had a very soothing
voice and wiped his forehead with a cool rag and was able to calm him down
enough to let the sedative take effect. He calmed down and eventually went to
sleep. The staff told my Mom, Dad, Liz and Grandma to go down to get a coffee
and clear their heads for awhile, that they would take care of Andrew. Once
Andrew fell asleep they were able to say their goodbyes and my Dad stayed the
night. They also had to have someone else in the room to watch over Andrew
since he was restrained to the bed.
Late last night they agreed to take the restraints off
Andrew because they didn’t want him to wake up, be restrained and this whole
thing start all over again.
I just got a call from my Mom, he is awake and he did get
very agitated as soon as he woke up trying to leave again. As far as I know
right now my Dad is in bed with Andrew trying to keep him contained. They are
waiting for the doctors to take him for his biopsy, spinal and ophthalmology exam,
which he will be put under for.
For right now my parents have asked that only immediate
family visit him until this is under control. He is going to be out of it most
the day today anyways after they put him to sleep for his procedures.
Honestly I am kind of relieved that I wasn’t
there yesterday to witness what my family did, it is absolutely heartbreaking
and I don’t know if I could have watched. What makes everything so much harder
is we don’t know what is going on in Andrew’s head right now, we can’t even
communicate with him. I wish this could just be over, what did this poor kid do
to deserve this? He’s been through so much already, its just unbelievable.
I am going to go up to the Hospital after work, and will
update when I get home.
Once again, please keep Andrew and my family in your
thoughts and prayers.
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