Oh my gosh, I can not believe that it has been two days since I have blogged. Excuse for last night is our internet was down and still is at the house so I am blogging from work. Some days I feel like I am boring you with my writing but then I look at all of the people who say it is helping them and that's great because I know that it is helping me.

The new nurse Amy started on Monday and she and Allie hit it off fantastically well. We have known Amy from our practice ans she is the perfect choice. She is reliable, congenial and loves taking care of others and she is also very funny.

We are very fortunate living in our subdivision because there is a pool and a few lakes they can go to so it breaks the day up and gives them something to do although Allie cant wait to go to the pool, be there for one minute and want to go to the lake and be there for one minute and want to go to the club house and one and on. It can me extremely frustrating but you keep the smile on and gas in the tank. Remember, we don't get anyhting more than we can handle and we are fortunate with her recovery, there are so may who have a more difficult situation them we do by far. God bless them.

Allie does NOT like her therapies at home and things just didn;t work out with her Occupational Therapist - enough said there. Yesterday she threw a fit because she did not want to go in the living room where her speech therapist was waiting and she locked herself in her room. Finally I remembered that in the hospital the therapist would go get her from her room and she always complied so I asked the speech therapist to do the same thing and it worked. Phew!

I don;t know if it's the recovery process and relearning to use inactive muscle but Allie always says things hurt her especially writing or doing her assignments. Anytime we want her to do something that she does not want to do she says it hurts her??

Well most of her friends are off to college this week and we will have to wait to see how well this goes as her core group will no longer be around. Wow. She understands hat she is unable to go to school, nor does she want to but sooner or later the realization of what is and has happened will have to have an effect on her and we will deal with it then.

Monday evening Nancy and Allie had a great time haning out in bed watching television together for at least 3 hours. I just hung out in the other room and let them have their time together. It was great. The anger had subsided significantly which has made life much more tolerable and has given everyone a better view of great things to come. She is working so hard internally to recreate what she has temporarly lost.

Her speech therapist is coming three times a week and siad thios morning that Allie continually improves in her reading and comprehension. Today we are thinking it may be possible for her to take a music class at the local community college in January - wouldn;t that be remarkable. Her voice coach Ginger is coming over and the piano was tuned today so ........ hopefully tomorrow we will hear music.

Outpatient therapy will probably begin in two weeks.

Today as we continue to pray for Allie we also pray for Paige and Marissa for their speedy recoveries.

God Bless You All
Allie's Dad