Wednesday Morning, July 25th

Good Morning

With Matt home I seem to be running a day behind with everything, he is great and it is wonderful to have him home but in the evenings when we get home from the hospital he seems to beat me to the computer every time. Teenagers are quick. Anyhow here's the Tuesday review.

After about 18 hours in bed I seemed to have beaten the food poisioning and Matt and I went down to see Allie bright and early in the morning. She didn;t have any therapies until 11:00 so I knew we would have some good time to hang out in the morning. The best I can say is we had time. Poor little sweetie was glad to see us at first and then -click - something set her off and she wanted me to go. It's interesting trying to figure what sets her off but at times I feel like she is trying to play or tease but due to the injury does not know that her words are inapporpriate and it's sometimes hard to watch because you can see that she obviously does not understand or want to do what she is doing but it's almost like she realizes it is not correct but does not understand how it's incorrect or why we do not like that behavior. I was firm with my voice a few times yesterday when I would tell he I did not like the way she was talking to me or her mom and she seemed to respond to that, also ignoring her when she is like that after you tell her you will not speak to her if she continues to talk like that seems to work. Poor sweetie, she will get better - for she knows not what she says.

Afternoon not much better but Nancy got back safely and looks great after a few days off. Allie and Matt bond really well together and one of the coolest parts of yesterday was Allie asked Matt to play a game of checkers with her,. so they set up the board in the rec. room. I was amazing to see them sitting together laughing and actually playing checkers and understanding the game and playing it all of her life. She was not up to her normal great game but played well and was not slow in thought or movement. I will post a picture of them later.

We are getting to the crucial moment when we have to decide our next step. In the next day or two we have to decide wether Allie comes home or goes to a different facility. Nancy and I are both leaning towards coming home and doing out patient rehab. If things do not go well we always have the option of the inpatient - It's in Gods hands and we will wait and see.

Have to run off to work now, so I wish you all a blessed day.

In health and recovery
Allie's Dad