Thursday July 26

Well my niece tells me she doesn’t go to sleep till the blog is posted and I told her that is a bad idea as it is usually the last thing we do.  Ab, tonight you go to bed early.

A quiet day with Donna.  The last two days she has shown much more determination and control with her therapy. This leaves us confident that the proper therapy regime is a key for her.  Any of the places we will go next will offer a more rigorous program focused on her needs.  We remain hopeful that we will see good improvements as part of that effort.  At times it seems that her limited speech remains consistent with math (her primary theme) and hard to interpret expressions but once in a while she will let loose with something perfectly in context that tells us, at least for a moment, there was more clarity.  A good example was today when the rehabilitation doctor shook her sternum and said “Hello Donna” in a loud voice and she shocked us all with a return “Hello”.

Donna’s only physical difficulty is periods of hot, sweaty moments.  She is getting a bit of a double doosey here as we were told that her brain healing will create such periods and she is also unable to take the hormones she was taking due to clotting concerns.  These are the moments we try to give the most comfort but it still has to be a drain for her.  Again therapy is a partial solution for this because as she is more stimulated, awake, and moving, we can address some of these issues better medically.  All success roads seem to lead toward therapy.

After a bath and quality hair wash today, she looked like a million bucks.  It had to feel really good too.

Well I know a bit what it must have felt like for the revolutionary army, as they knew they were in proximity of the battle but didn’t know when or how specifically it would actually come.  We expected insurance engagement today, and I think we just passed each other in that battlefield forest.  Unlike the redcoats, this opponent does not do battle on weekends so if we don’t engage tomorrow, we will probably engage on Monday.  Sounds so much more civilized, we’ll see.  I suspect not.

Steady as she goes here.  Prayers, and small steady improvement are all we ask for every day.

Thanks to all

Bob