Saturday Evening, July 28th

Well for those of you who thought our trip to Brevard would turn out horrible, you were wrong. Sorry, just had to throw you off there for a minute. It was teriffic!!! Wasn't so sure it was going to go well when I got tot he hospital this morning as Allie was a little out of sorts. Big day on Friday so the next day she is usually tired. We considered holding our trip off until Sunday as it was raining out and you know but.... we decided to give it a whirl. We are going to have to learn to handle these situations so there was no better time than the present. But let's back up a minute.

Allie had speech therapy at 9:00 this morning so I got her at 8:30 just to make sure she was up and ready and much to my suprise she was already up, showered, dressed and sitting in the rec room with two other people watching - what else - the Millie video. Every person on the 3rd floor at the Roger C Peace center is a huge fan of Allie's. Her new (temporary) speech therapist Denise (who is awesome) took Allie for breakfast since our girl did not like what arrived (and for good reason), so they went downstairs. Denise and Allie have great rappore and I always enjoy hearing from her how well their session went. Well after awhile of sitting upstairs I decided to do down and get some breakfast myself being careful not to let them see me - but I saw them and it brought tears to my eyes. There they were in middle of the atrium eating their breakfast and just chatting like two girlfriend who had not seen each other in a while. A very normal, perfect picture. For a moment all was right in the world as if nothing had ever happened.

After her therapy we got in the car and drove up the mountain to our home. No problems on the ride - in fact it was a joy with some singing and game playing. At home - picture perfect, a few moments to acclimate to the dogs and just like it has always been - was this a dream - was there ever an accident. Of course there was but I have these moments when. I cooked up a big Sunday lunch (on Saturday) and we all ate at the table and talked for an hour and a half. Wow this was amazing and if this was a sign of things to come, well we were going to be OK. After a while Allie wanted to go downtown abd I agreed even though she was beginning to show signs of being real tired. We all got in the truck and all hell broke loose so we headed back down the hill to the hospital and hour away with her crying and screaming that she was hurting and needed an ambulance to take her. Brain injury -WILL NOT distract from our most amazing day.

As soon as we got to the hospital she calmed down, we went upstairs and it was if it never happened - again, brain injury. All is well and life is good. We are going to be fine and Allie is going to make a Full Recovery. She is real tired now and in the shower again. Nancy and Matt went to the movies so I guess I will try to catch up with them.

Peace and Love
Allie's Dad