November 14th (Amanda’s birthday)
– The nurses had made a banner and surprised Amanda with a birthday cake.
End of November
– Brodie started showing signs of getting better. They performed a tracheotomy so that Brodie could be removed from the ventilator. He was able to wake up and non-verbally communicate with Amanda (smiling, mouthing words). He started physical therapy and things were looking up.
– Instead of the ventilator, he was put on oxygen. Unfortunately, he suffered a panic attack, which is when things took a turn for the worse.
December
– She knew there were going to be setbacks, but in December things seemed to just continually get worse and worse.
– They wanted to revisit the idea of a lung transplant.
– While in the hospital, Brodie got an infection in his lungs. She found out about this sometime around December 13th, her and Brodie’s wedding anniversary.
December 16th (Brodie’s birthday)
– Chris Jericho flew Brodie Jr up to Jacksonville on his private plane. He got to attend that episode of Dynamite, which was a big deal to him as he was (and had always been) such a big wrestling fan.
– That night, Amanda was expecting to receive a phone call on the decision as to whether or not Brodie would receive a lung transplant. She didn’t hear anything.
December 24th
– Amanda had gone back home to spend a few days with her kids.
– She received a phone call from a doctor saying that they needed to begin end of life care. At this point, Brodie’s kidneys and heart were failing. Amanda refused to come back to Jacksonville, as she was determined to spend Christmas with her children.
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