Wednesday Night

So doctors are now telling Jill that 3 weeks ago, after Terre endured a seizure-type fit, an EEG was done to detect brain wave activity. This X-Ray of the brain did not yield good results. In fact the general collective consensus among medical personnel was that little activity in the brain was detected. Just incredible.

Incredible because I just returned home from the hospital where Denny, Jill and I had a 30 minute conversation with Terre. He called us all by name. Shook our left hands with a good strong Terre handshake. We talked about fishing, hunting, doctors, therapy, friends etc etc etc!!!!!!!!!!! Just Miraculous! Denny and I took turns quizing Terre. I said "Yeah Terre, Denny and I floated the Hoback the other day and caught a few on that little streamer you tied, what's that thing called again?", without being prompted he comes up with "The Micro-Mini-Pimp?". Who else even puts these words together? Let alone whips out an answer like this after a 5 week coma?

Big Rotch does, that's who and I couldn't be happier! Terre went on to dazzle us with answers to nearly all of our covert questions, just awesome. Additionally I started telling him about one of his good rugby friends from UW, Jeff Morris. I told him about Morris taking a new job in Colorado and that he would be moving down there with his wife Linette and their infant son...............??? Trey? Travis? I couldn't think of it and Terre blurted out "Trevyn!" How cool is that.

Terre does vacillate in his understanding of what happened to him. Sometimes he thinks he was hurt playing rugby............"these doctors just don't understand how rough rugby is on your body"and "I've been playing a lot of rugby lately".....to referring to his 'illness'...."I've been sick for a little while now' and thanks to Jill's patient and loving reminders he'll say ...."I had a bad fall......you know....I was in a COMA" he tells me. It's just incredible, the increased cognition and personality that Terre continues to express. He also clearly still wants to tell stories and be hospitable......."Come on in fellas, get yerself a seat here" and even offered us some of his food.

Terre continues to make physical strides as well, today with the help of his PT guy he walked down the hall of his hospital floor and continues to work on catching his right limbs' dexterity up with his left.

Personally I was quite flattered by Jill's story of Terre's answer to the Occupational therapist's question "Terre what do you do when your truck runs out of gas?" To which he replied "Call Pooty". The Big Cat also matter-of-factly told Denny and I that he'd be coming home next week sometime and would 'get on the horn' and 'come pick us up' to go out fishing or something. "I'll see you guys over in Jackson" was another great quote.

Sorry for the rambling nature of this post, I'm just too excited for words that Terre's really coming back to us. Oh one more thing, he asked when my wedding was...."So how many days do we got?" I replied " Oh about a month and a half". He say's " Okay so we still got time to get out to Fontenelle or something". Fontenelle is a lake south of here where he and I had talked about having my bachelor party/fishing trip. Hardly anyone else knew about those plans so I am just, again, so impressed with the rate and depth of his recovery thus far.

Y'all all have a great day and again thanks for all the support. Another thing Terre said today was " Alot of people know about me being in here, we got a long list" to which his loving, wonderful, grateful wife Jill replied " Yes we do Terre, we got a long long list". Thanks all, thanks so much. GO T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!