Dentist

Our day today pretty much consisted of going to the dentist office to get our teeth cleaned. Randy was a little difficult to get up and around again today. I was a little surprised because he fell asleep even before I did. He finally got up in time to get ready to get there on time. The dentist is one we have been going to for year. He expressed to me how very impressed he was with Randy's attitude with dealing with the accident. He commented that he didn't believe that Randy would be as far along as he was now if he had been a "glass half empty" kind of guy. I completely agree.

Randy and I got home in time to play a few short games on our Nintendo before picking Cass up from school. There is one game that Randy really struggled with. He has tried many times before, but never could quite make it. Today, he actually made it through the entire game. The game required use of both of his hands. The left hand had been a big hinderance to him, but he did amazing through it today.

Cass is sick with a nasty head cold so we had a peaceful evening. We all played a short game together and then watched a movie.

I started a new book today. Since the accident, it seems all I have read a lot of different stories of other people's experiences with head injury. The book I started today came highly recommended from someone in the support group we go to. His son was in a car accident over 20 years ago and has no short term memory still to this day. A couple weeks after the accident, the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" started going through my head. The name of this book is "The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome". On the front cover is a poem written by the man in the book who had the head injury. The poem is:

Humpty Dumpty
Had an auto accident
And even though the pieces are
Back together physically....

All the king's horses,
And all the king's men,
Or neuropsychologists,
Or mental therapists,
Even Priests,
Can't put him back together again.