Donna remains well but exhausted. A hard week of therapy found her pretty well spent on Friday. Most weekday evenings we sit in one of the family areas, sit on sofa and visit (makes us feel a little like home). Friday her head slowly tilted and tilted until it was limp on my shoulder and it was clear that she had expended all she had as she fell asleep. It is really just what we want, Donna to maximize therapy intensity. Many ask about her attitude as it is easy to believe it could be challenging after all she has been through. Amazingly it is awesome. She welcomes the hard work, understands the goals she pursues and realizes the two are directly related. She does see the improvements she makes and turns those wins into motivation also. Not so surprising for her.
We're two weeks into the 4 weeks with her cast. The cast will be off before you know it. Donna has had no pain and continues to walk on it every day. Progress.
One of the great difficulties for months has been Donna's lost drivers license. I've spent hours and hours trying to overcome this lost picture ID as it has been needed for a bunch of important issues. The drivers license people would not issue a new one unless Donna appeared in person, not something we could pull off. Well this weekend Donna wore a dress to church. Boy did she look great. We had been working our way up to it the last few weeks but a few misfires. Finally we were ready based on some help from others. As we were getting ready to go she said "How about jewelry?" Well it made great sense but it was another issue I had yet to tackle. After not locating much of her jewelry, I remembered where her jewelry from the day of the accident was stored. As I looked through the packets of jewelry secured by the hospital security team, Voila', there was the drivers license MIA for the last 5 months. Wow could that have saved some trouble but we were very glad to find it. You would be surprised how much the DL is used for beyond driving.
This week will have us doing some safety adaptations at our house to accommodate Donna when she gets there. Just one more indication that homecoming time is getting closer. Based on the excellent work being done in Galveston, I am now suspecting this homecoming will not be this month but probably December although everything is always subject to change. We don't plan too far in advance, we just don't have that luxury.
Donna does well and our routine is becoming more and more ingrained. All good here, God willing. This blog goes weekly from here on (Sunday's). That also is a sign of progress as we trend back toward something that will resemble a normal life style. Thanks for all your support
Bob
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