3yrs; Day 1312 – from Corey; anger
today was a really bad day everyone, i am just telling you because i was really frustrated today. i did not want to go to the pool. i do not like that people have to come and stay with me to take care of me. mom showed me pictures of me in the hospital and living at...
3yrs; Day 1311 – from Corey
hello everyone, this is Corey today my mom and i were having dinner and the topic of running came up. my cousins are planning a race in september and it is a fundraiser for me. so i asked my mom if i could try and run it? she told me i am not quite ready; however,...
3yrs; 7 months – from Corey
hello everyone it is corey i have not fallen off the side of the earth i am still here. i know how people say april showers bring may flowers however i think that april showers bring headaches and let me just say they are not even a little bit as pretty as flowers....
3yrs; Day 1306 – she’s “thinking”
Hi Everyone, Sorry we've been quiet again. Miss Corey is suffering with more headaches from this rainy weather. She's been up through the night, waking with a headache and sleeping in to make up for the overnights. She can make it through the day, pushes through our...
3yrs; Day 1304 – TBI long term therapy = as critical as chemo is to cancer
Hi Everyone, We have some good news and some good news...Medicaid approved an additional 24 sessions for PT. We're safe to continue at Bryn Mawr until mid-July. What a relief! I am truly hoping we won't be discharged until Corey is walking independently. She keeps...
3yrs; Day 1303 – “neutral zone”
Hi Everyone, Corey is working well with her journal therapy. It is giving me insight into her unspoken fears and frustrations; not that I know how to help her release them but it's a start. As you have come to know through our writing, brain injury causes great change...
3yrs; Day 1300 – Caregiver’s “writing therapy”
Hi Everyone, Thank you for your prayers and continued support. Tonight we are sharing on a much deeper level. It is the unspoken truth many know, some can sense and a few have read between the lines. Tonight the unspoken has a voice that I hope will help transform us,...
3yrs; Day 1299 – caregiver’s scream
Time for more prayers! I am sitting in my home office listening to Corey scream and kick, rejecting the presence of her teacher; just one of several tantrums since this morning. Medication is not the answer; the compounds often counteract the intended result and add...
3yrs; Day 1297 – from Corey
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our...
3yrs; Day 1293 – Caregiver’s Prayer
Hi Everyone, Thank you to those of you that read between the lines of these entries. We have been plowing through another difficult run with Corrine. Corey has not been sleeping through the night. She is waking every 1-2 hours. When she wakes up she is disoriented and...