A warm day in May

May will mark the seventh month from our car accident on 27 Feb 2011. Alexandria is in motion! She has completed all speech and physical therapy, passed her recent neurological testing with above average on her vocabulary and is slightly above average IQ!! She was declared fully competent to handle her own affairs. I knew she had it in her, but so fast, wow!! Her diagnosis back in the fall was a Traumatic Brain Injury, Diffused Axional Injury. Dealing with that and overcoming fractures and two collapsed lungs, it was touch and go for awhile. Alex is working on completing her high school credits and enjoying the spring with her boyfriend Robert...just trying to do some drama free calm living. She will continue improving up to 18 months out and we will focus on helping to sharpen the processing speed/cognitive reaction time. Those who interact with her should keep this in mind and give her extra time to process a question, sucj as receiving it fully, understanding it, considering a response and then providing a response. When she is baraged with to many questions or activities at once she can show her frustration in the form of impatience...or just plain anger. It is faster to sometimes fall back on anger when we are overwhelmed. Please continue to show mercy and dont take her short responses as aimed at you...she is just trying to keep up. Im not sure if anyone is reading anymore, but Ill update every so often for history. Thanks to all!

January 2012

Thank you all soo much for the power of love you sent to Alex. Since she arrived home late November 2011 she has continued to make excellent progress she thrives! What an amazing young lady to overcome so much in such a short time. I apologize for not posting sooner. You see between Thanksgiving and Christmas Alex had dozens of follow up appointnents, most in Greenville. This month she is going to be pushing the academic bar higher as she prepares to return to school. I love love love having her back home and again I must express my gratitude to everyone for helping through all those difficult moments. Alex has at least 4-6 more months of overall healing ahead of her but her neurologist did say they anticipate a 100% recovery! Happy New Year Alexandria!!