We are finally connected to the rest of the world. Yeah!
So to catch up on our last few days:
We lost power for a couple of hours on Thursday, but it came on shortly after we got back from dinner. By the time we got up in the morning, We had no power. I went in search of a generator, but was too late. Everywhere was sold out. I got home early afternoon and was only home for a short time before our neighbor came over and hooked us up to their generator (Yes, we have amazing neighbors!). Last year when the power went out, they couldn't have both houses hooked up at once because our furnace drew too much energy. Shortly thereafter, we got a new furnace so they were able to provide heat to both houses. We were very thankful. Randy is planning on baking a white chocolate cheesecake to show our appreciation. Our power came back on around noon on Saturday. There are still many people around here without power and I feel so awful for them. It is very cold!
Friday, Randy still went to his speech therapy session. Since, it is attached to a hospital, they had at least some power, though it was limited power. Randy talked to the therapist about why his therapies are ending. She assured him that it had nothing to do with insurance. Many people have insurance that will limit them to only so many hours of therapy. Randy has amazing insurance. They continue as long as Randy shows improvements. All of the therapists feel that Randy has made such vast improvements over the last few weeks that he no longer needs their services. Now we need to take things we learned from them and keep Randy going with the work. The hard part, I think, is going to keep him motivated. He is motivated to do stuff that he knows he has to show someone ~ such as the homework he has to do for his speech therapy. I think it could be easy for him to fall into a "hole" where he, being frustrated that he isn't back to work right now, starts doing less and less of those activities that are going to get him back there because the end result feels so far off to him right now. My idea is to set him up a daily schedule of what he needs to do and have him check off everything as he does it. I just need to come up with that short reward that is going to be his motivator. Somehow I think "not having me nag him" is not going to be it. He does have a current obsession with gummy worms - so I suppose that is a possibility!
The return to work thing came back up today because Randy had to call and get some info for his SSI application. The Vocational therapist from Harborview told Randy that the average time to return back to work is 18 months. Randy, however, has never been average. Once we get the tests done by the Neuropsychologist, we should have a better idea of how soon Randy can get back into the swing of things.
So, for the rest of our weekend: Friday night, with needing to conserve power, we all (Randy, his mom, Cass and I) sat around playing a game together and then headed to our beds to keep warm (the generator needed to be disconnected at night). At one point during the evening, something was brought up that happened recently, but Randy hadn't written it down. Randy stated, "If I didn't write it down, it doesn't exist." This is a very true statement for his current reality! Saturday we stayed in bed until Ron came over to re-connect it. Sunday, I woke up with an incredibly bad headache and a fever. Randy took very good care of me all day. Then today, I expected to wake up feeling fine (it's called the "24 hour flu", right?), but again, I felt like my head was going to explode, so I stayed home again today. I only ventured out to get to the chiropractor, hoping he could alleviate some of the headache.
Sunday, I was suppose to take Cass and her friend ice skating. Randy's mom took them instead. While she was there, though, she fell ~ not on the ice, but while going down some stairs. Today, her foot was very swollen and very much hurting. She had it x-rayed today and she has a fracture. She is suppose to stay off of it for the next few days.
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