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The attending doctor has been very to the point with us and it has been a little difficult to handle her delivery of information. Basically, her diagnosis is that Amanda will not progress any further and if anything get worse.
I think doctors are good people... but they, like the rest of us are human, thus they are not always correct when trying to predict the future.
In 1995 my mother had a bad reaction to medicine she was on. A doctor told my father that the swelling of her brain was creating pressure against her cranium, and because of this my mother would not be able to drive again, she would not be able to hold adult conversations, and would not be able to do most things adults take for granted. I was only allowed to see her a few times, my father would not let me for several days.
Once she was “better” my father let my brother and I visit her… what I saw, and perhaps most troubling, what I heard from her gave me headaches beyond belief. Thinking about it today causes the back of my head to hurt. My mother acted like a 5 year old. She laughed at the dumbest stuff, the words she used were the most elementary. My mother was a RN, she was extremity smart, and to hear and see her functioning at such a juvenile level almost brought me to my knees. I hugged and kissed her, I tried to be encouraging for her… but I had to get out of her room as fast as I could before my mind exploded.
A few days later My father broke the bad news to me at my part time job. My father was not an emotional man, but he could not even stand when he told me the bad news. I tied to be strong in front of my father, but after seeing him off I hid at work and cried for hours. Bad news like that about my mother hurt me… but even worse was seeing my father in such a state hurt me even more.
It Is hard for me to remember the exact span of time, I kept going to school, I kept working after school. It seems like just a few weeks later my mother was back home driving and doing everything as if nothing had ever happened. To this day she is as normal as ever.
The Doc made his best prediction, and it is his job to tell people like us his honest projection…. But in my mothers case he was wrong.
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