Reassessment

"Enjoy the adventure of finding yourself through losing yourself in Me." Jesus Calling

There has defiantly been a lot of finding myself the last three months. From the night of Troys accident happened everything changed. I found myself growing closer with so many family members and friends. Something that wouldn't have happened without the accident. I also found myself closer than ever with Jesus. When tragedy strikes you find there is no safer way to turn than into the arms of the one who has had you in his hands from the beginning. 

Troys recovery has been amazing. I've said it a million times but that boy is 100% miracle. We have made our way through weeks of therapy working towards the goal of gaining his strength back, cognition and getting him as close as what we can to what he was before the accident. With these injuries time is really the ultimate healer. We have learned that even 5,10, or 15 years from now Troy has the ability to experience gains. After a year, they say your brain does the majority of its healing. Troy has come a long way in only three short months so I can imagine he will continue to make steady progress. They test him often in each therapy session to see how he has progressed since we started outpatient therapy. He has progressed in each session and even met all his goals in PT already. Now, that doesn't mean it's over (sadly). It means we make new, more challenging goals going forward. For people (and me) it's often hard to see what Troy really struggles with. In ST today they did some testing of his processing time, memory and recognition. His recognition of letters, numbers and symbols went from the 9th percentile to the 38th percentile! As for his processing speed he remains low at the 9th percentile. Normal ranges for both categories run 25-75th percentile. For me, that was a huge realization that, yes he may look fine and do things like he would normally but things are not working as good as they should be yet. With processing it's more of a time thing. There is really nothing Troy can do to speed up or help the process along, unfortunately. We are going down to one day a week at ST. We will continue with all other therapy's twice a week until we can meet with Dr Vandenburg for further instruction. 

His MRI and EEG are still not scheduled. Thinking that will be on the calendar shortly. His CT scan showed improvement and no signs of stroke or blood left over from his bleeds. I'm so glad for that! We are heading out for a field trip tomorrow to check out the new Cabelas. We haven't been there yet and we don't typically get out that way, only if were passing through to get to GR. Troy wants to make a day date out of it and go get some mall food for lunch. Not our thing at all but it's gets us out for a few hours! I'm expecting we will both need a nap when we get home from that!