A big surprise!!!!!

So there I was standing in the hallway at the hospital on Monday afternoon having a chat with Dave and I looked down the hall and to my surprise and delight, there was Dr. Kathy walking toward us. At first I thought I was losing my mind because she belongs in Maui or Minnesota and Gord refers to her as his personal physician. Kathy had driven to Calgary all the way from Minnesota to find her friend Gord after having searched all of Maui and he was nowhere to be found. What a friend! We spent a couple of hours with Gord and he was so happy to see Kathy. His comment when he saw her was " Oh for heavens sake!". I'm sure he was confused about where he was at that point as well! We are on our way back this morning to spend the day helping Gord with his physio and to try and get the doctors to let Kathy view Gord's records. After all, she is his personal physician!!!
I spoke to his stoke nurse again yesterday (just before she leaves for a week on a conference) and she is thinking about giving Gord some anti agitation drugs. We are afraid he is going to try and get out of bed and end up on the floor. On Monday he managed to find the buttons that raise and lower the bed and put himself absolutely upright and could not figure out how to get it down again. He has been quite humorous interspersed with his grumpiness. He seems to be trying to figure out how to get things fixed and gets very frustrated when I can't understand what he is saying. He has come out with words that are not in the English language (so perhaps he is speaking in some other ancient tongue). My next quest is to find an interpreter.
Gord also spoke my name clearly for the first time and recognized his own written name. We are testing him each day for name, date, year, location, and asking what people are doing in pictures. I think he feels the picture thing is child's play and doesn't want to participate. Hopefully he will come around and have more fun with it.
The longer term prognosis looks like we will be at the Foothills for another few weeks and then relocated to perhaps The Fanning Center or the Brain Center at Ponoka. I am learning more about the Ponoka center and it looks like he would get wonderful treatment and attention there if we can get him qualified.
That's all for today so far.....talk later...
Have a wonderful day everyone
Love
Sheila