Sunday Morning, March, 15th

Hi Everyone

Here we are 10 months after the accident and still healing. WIll be for a long time to come. When people told us initially to save our energy because head trauma is a marathon they were not kidding. We are probably around the 15 mile marker - thank goodness for all of the caring people who have stood by us as we continue to help our daughter heal.

To keep you updated, Allie is at home with us and has been for around a month. School was not the best route to go and just added extra stress to all of us. We all gave it a go and it certainly was the right thing to do. Since Allie's been home it has been great. We are spending a lot of time together and doing a lot of growing, not onlt in the sense of physical as I think that is secondary to the emotional and spititual growth and healing that we have gone and are going through. It's truly amazing to be a part of a rebirth.

I have been actively seeking new therapists for Allie ie: cognative training and psychotherapy and it a lot, lot, lot harder to find the right people than I ever would have imagined and then there are those that seem to want to help but never call you back. I know God is putting the right people in the right places for us. Boy trauma certainly changes your life's experience or is it the experience you are supposed to be having. A long time ago, nancy and I took ourselves out of the picture and realized that we needed to dedicate our lives to the children and it has helped. Putting your own needs on the back burned to help someone else is unconditional love and it help make our world right.

It still seems wierd to me that I am writing about a little girl who has come so far when so many of my friends are are moving at a less quick pace but I guess that is what I have been called to do. Maybe our story gives others hope and inspiration and if nothing else maybe thay will know we love then and we can help be thier rock.

For those that are wondering what is going on with Full Recovery, we are still moving forward. I think I was moving to quickly and needed to heal myself a little more but currently we are still seeking a web designed who will do our project and not cost a fortune. We have at last count over 185 pages of information to be posted (all in word document) if anyone wants to jump in and we are taking the names of people who would like to join our prayer group as an internet prayer partner. If this is something you would like to do, please e-mail me at drcagen@citcom.net

Allie had her best day yesterday since coming home. She was clear and happy, no confrontation and it was a joyful day.

We have also created another blog called http://www.howtosurvivethehospital.blogspot.com/ this is a forum hof peoples hospital stories both good and bad and allows them to give us advice to be used on the web site as to how they managed to survive their stay. How to survive the hospital is not negative but very postive we want to hear what you did to survive as a family and what you did to survive the medical staff and the medical bills. We also want to know what techniques you employed, what you liked and did not like and how you made your experience better. We will then share this information on our site.

That's all for today. We love and appreciate you!

Allie's Dad