Lots of Easter blessings sent yall's way :)

I thank everyone for their support. It is tougher than I realized entering. I want to thank everyone for their prayers too. They seem to have been answered to a great extent. Every day Jay has gotten better by strides. Since Sunday when she gave us a little trouble (2 hours of mental anguish) about leaving with me and coming back in the morning to start therapy, Jay is happy.

Rehabilitation was to last 3 weeks. She is blowing through all tests they give her. Tuesday she was allowed to walk on her own unaided, and Thursday she walked one mile with a PT. She is to be discharged Saturday after I get a course in how to take care of her. I assume this means giving meds and anything else. This is the fastest discharge from St Mary's, according to her doctor and nurses.

Originally in order to discharge her, her social worker, whom I have never met, needed to visit my home and make sure it was safe for her. This talk has disappeared.

The other part of her recovery is that I can barely tell she just had brain surgery. Her conversation, that just a week ago, was showing signs of a problem has nearly vanished. I do feel like I helped here. We have spent hours every day working on putting the memories in order. More on the phone throughout the day and night. I told her early on that she can call me at any hour and she has. So 2AM, 4 AM calls were the normal until she no longer needed the comfort of talking to me at that hour.

She still has one black eye and it is shut. We still have radiation to get through, too but these seem like speed bumps compared to what has just occurred.

My new joke I tell is: "Do you know what is better than sex after 3 weeks?"

Sleep.

This is great news, Carter. Thanks for keeping us posted.

Great news indeed.

What you are saying is GREAT! :tup: She is rebounding fast. She will have good day/bad day. When she feels good. Don't let her do to much. Because the next day will be a bad day. You don't want to go through that. What you want to do is even out the days. ;)

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TY Tam for the details and peaks into your life. Still thinking of you and your gal.

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You and Jay are still in our prayers.

Wow. Just stumbled into this thread because I was not seeing the normal posts.
I wish the best for you and Jay for a speedy recovery.

Hi, Carter. Just checking in to ask how things are going. Better, I hope. You and Jay are still in my prayers.

Jay is alive and better than well. My computer is on life support today and has been in a coma for months.

I want to tell everyone how appreciative I am of all of you. The prayers did their job and again I thank you for every one of them.

Jay did her radiation five days a week for six weeks. The worry was loss of eye sight in the left eye but this did not occur. She has terrible double vision which we work on every day. She often speaks to the wrong (illusion) head because of the double vision. This will get better.

We were walking every day up until a recent heat wave and laziness set in. :icon17:

The doctors told us it would be a year until she could drive again. We live too far away from public transportation to be useful so she is trapped without the use of a car. So before this was told to us, I started driver re-education. We found a church parking lot initially, and while wearing an eye patch, proceeded to do a reasonable job of driving and parking. We continued this all throughout radiation driving now on the streets while I comfortably sat in the passenger seat instructing her to go deeper into a turn so as not to put a tire into the other lane. She glommed on to this wonderfully. Never does she cross the line nor put a tire over the right side line either. After radiation ended, doctors gave a new revised 8-12 months before she could drive again.

One week later Jay asked after a drive if she could drive all by herself. Music to my ears as I knew full well she saw all the pitfalls ahead, like the bikes up ahead , pedestrians etc. She drives slowly unlike her former self so this makes for a very precise driver today. Jay is no longer a prisoner of home. :happy dance:

The only down sides of her recovery are hair loss, the left eye being independent, afternoon fatigue, slight mood swings, and the worst perhaps, not being able to mentally juggle things. Every one of life's speed bumps seems like Mt Everest to her. Once she could handle so many things at once, now one at a time. Nor does she sleep through the night and therefore I do not either.

Currently she is mentally miserable because the house continues to need maintenance and having the plumber, a contractor, and public work on the street is upcoming. Little things to all of us are huge to her.

Life gets easier and better each day even if I can't notice it. When I look back a week or month it is clear.

Some day I'll have time to get my computer fixed. Some day.

This is great news.

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Good to hear from you, Carter. Cheers for a healthy recovery :)

Thanks for the update, Carter. So glad to know that Jay is doing better and that she is on the mend. Make sure you take care of yourself too.

So glad to hear this. :D Be patience. It will all come back. But it will take awhile. Before you know. It will seem like the distance past.

So now your computer is on the prayer list too. :icon17:

Hi Tam!
Ty for the update...you,and Jay, appear to be taking care of business. It is good to see. God luv you both! :) <3

Thank you all for your tremendous support.

Jay seems happy the last few days too. It is wonderful to see her smile again.

Thanks for brightening my day with this news.

Hi, Carter. :hello:

Hope you and Jay are doing great. Everything still going well with Jay's progress? Just wanted to check on y'all.

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This long overdue update I will attempt today.

Jay and I are doing very well. I would like to say she is 100% but this is not the case. Last month she had an operation to stop her double vision. It was mostly succesful but not perfect. She can hold her head a certain way and see only one head or one person. This is great. If you look at her you can tell something is wrong with at least one eye. It has that lazy eye look. She can see so looks are not everything, but this poor girl wants to look as good as possible. Who wouldn't.

With some good friends who offered help, we got her to all her appointments and anything else. I have been working throughout all of this with few days off. My mother and sister have needed financial help too so I have been busy working for all of us.

The thought of driving at the track was missed initially but I soon realized I am not allowed to get hurt or sick. Just driving my car into a ditch would have caused another avalanche of my time being used up. Getting laid up was unthinkable so no track days. I had almost lost interest in cars. I do say almost. Regular maintenance was often ignored.

Last week on the way to work, my car hit a rev limiter at 3500 rpm's. I noticed the oil temp was still at 140 or less so I figured oil. I drove in third and fourth gear to avoid 3500 rpm's. I let the car sit for an hour or more then checked the stick. Nothing. Three weeks earlier it was low and I ordered a case of oil. It took three quarts to come up to the top. The dip stick is not linear. I added the second quart and it was still at the bottom of the stick. It was the last one that brought it to the top. My poor car. It seems undamaged but clearly I have been absent from normal life.

When I went to the track I always was on top of things. May 8th is going to be my first track day in 18 months or more. I only decided to go today. Jay wants to go so life may be reverting to normal.


Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. I can not tell you how much comfort I received. You are wonderful people.

This is good to hear. :tup: She's trying and hasn't given up. :tup: That's good. She has gone through a lot. Remind her of that, and use it as a positive note. Something to build on. Time now to enjoy life. :tup:


When my first wife was dying of cancer, and I was taking care of her. I didn't take care of myself. :icon14: I was more worried about her then me. I paid the price on a few things. Missed my dental appointments, doctor appointments, etc. After she past away. I started to go back to catch up on things. Going back to the dentist. I ended up with 4 bridges in my mouth. Plus hernia surgery.:shakes head:

Both of you are still in my prays. :tup:

Great to hear progress, Carter. Cheers to both you and Jay :tiphat:

And don't worry about the Z. It is much easier to fix than the human body. Enjoy the track! :driving:

^^^ What Rusty said in spades! The best to you and your wife still. Recovering from tragedy should teach us to live and love hard. That doesn't happen by living in a bubble and it seems like Jay understand that too. Be well and I lool forward to reading about your adventures. :D

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So very, very glad to hear that Jay is doing better. Glad to know that the interest in driving your Z again has been sparked too.

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Ty. Ty. Ty. For the update.

Prayers. And good thoughts. For you and your gal.

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Any updates? :confused:

Thank you all for the well wishes. I am humbled.

Jay has been going to therapy for her new broken arm and for walking which led to the fall. She really improved from walking like she was drunk to a more normal stride. We finally attempted an unpaved hillside walk to my new property she wanted to see. With the help of my arm to steady her we made it, there and back! She is a real trooper.

Inspiring update, Carter! Thank you :tiphat:

We all wish you and Jay a wonderful New Year and hope it is filled with lots more positive recovery activities :tup:

Thank you sir.

I have been having a recent problem with my Z. It takes longer to crank start and then became down on power, getting me into trouble when I pulled out and thought the car might stall when I gave it gas. It hesitates constantly.
Finally this morning it threw a code of P300 and B2607. Random misfire which I already can hear and B2607 which I don't know.

http://www.the370z.com/engine-drivet...de-p300-2.html

And ordered MAF cleaner.

Do you have any input?

Thanks,

Carter

The B2607 code is the steering lock relay. Have you done anything to it?

Once I removed fuse then under recall it was replaced along with new steering lock security component.

Nothing in years

They just gave me two other codes: B2609 steering sensor off, and b2631 sun load sensor.

The misfire is what is wrong that I notice. I have not touched my cars set up in years.

Thanks

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Good to hear from you buddy as it has been a minute or two. Love hearing things progressing in the right direction.

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