Charting the Course

If you look up physicians in the phonebook, none of them advertise themselves as brain injury life coaches, and I'm thinking that's what we need right now. Annie is stable for the time being--we're not in any kind of crisis mode--so we have the luxury of wondering what the heck we should do next to facilitate her physical/neuro recovery.

She continues to make gains in her speech-sound acquisition--this past Tuesday when we were in the church foyer Pastor Dale said "Hi, Annie," and she said "Hi" back, much to his surprise! She is also more expressive in her eyes--lots of the "old Annie" is coming back to her face.

We're scheduling another assessment to see how much more OT/PT/Speech she should be getting. And after talking to my friend, Carol, who made an amazing recovery from polio with swim therapy, I also am thinking that I'd like to get her into an aqua-therapy class--but where and with whom?

It's like getting orders to navigate through my computer without Bill. Or learning to text without David. I need to pray more.

Jean

Though the Lord gave you adversity for food
and suffering for drink,
he will still be with you to teach you.
You will see your teacher with your own eyes.
Your own ears will hear him.
Right behind you a voice will say,
“This is the way you should go,”
whether to the right or to the left. Isaiah 30:20-21