They Say the Brain Healing has Started

Hello everyone. When Mother and I arrived at Kernan today we found Mike to be so disturbed and scared. He woke up last evening at 3:30 AM and saw that we weren't there. He thought we had left and gone back to North Carolina. He couldn't remember that we had been there earlier. Matter of fact he couldn't remember us being with him or that anybody had been there at all including his wife and children. Mike thought we had abandoned him. Two of the therapists were there with him and were explaining things to him. It was so sad to see him so distraught. Their telling him and us that this is part of the brain healing. Some days are great and now some days are the steps back. See we go there every day at 3:30 PM. This is the type of confusion they go through. By the evening hours we usually have him straight and he's talking and communicating okay. We think this happens during the night by dreams, the TV, or over hearing the staff talking, and who knows. The therapist explained his brain is healing and making him more aware that he does have a problem and that he is confused. By the time we arrive he is terrified and feels totally abandoned. Mike's realizing that this confusion frightens him especially when he has no memory of us being there the night before. Mother left him a note tonight for him to see if he wakes up during the night. It says, Rochelle, children, Mom, Cathy, and Nancy love him and will never leave him. It also says that Mom and Cathy are there every afternoon at 3:30pm and if he wakes up and it is dark outside and the clock says 3:30 that is sleeping time. When the clock says 3:30 and it's light outside that means we will be there. Hopefully this phase will pass as other phases have passed. Mother would camp out in his room on a chair if she could but the staff wants us and him to get the rest that all of us need. This very nice nurse named Jane tells us that Mike is actually doing very well compared to other patients there who have brain injuries who have no family that visit them. She says they have to be placed on a lot of medications, and especially meds for depression and they lay in their beds and cry and don't participate in their therapies well. She told Mike he was very lucky to have family there everyday and that his wife,children, sisters, and mom love him and that they are there for him. This period of his healing is so heart wrenching but we really do believe that God saved him and has better plans for him. Please pray that God will give him peace in his heart during the nights and that he will soon pass this period of healing.