What a beautiful holiday, day today:
I saw the Dr. today and there are no changes. The Dr. asked whether or not I was going to be able to handle the days where there are not changes. My reponse: "Shit, I guess I am going to have to". Today, again upon seeing me in Deano's room the Dr. said Oh no!! I told him come on doc, I know you like me. To which he responded, "I guess in some odd way, I do". (I knew you would eventually - I have to say you came around much sooner than I anticipated).
Though there are no changes to speak of; this is much better than a step backwards and I can see (and others have noticed - not just me wishing and hoping) that Deano is really trying to say the magic word (magic for now anyway) "Coca Cola". My mom seems to think saying caca may be just as helpful.
Today I actually took in some paper and sharpies for Dean. I gave him 3 colors of the sharpies to choose from (blue, black and red) and he chose red. Now the first time I took the cap off for him and handed him the marker he chose. The next time I let him choose and he again chose red. Now this time I did not take the cap off and he did what any one would have done without a free hand and placed the cap in his mouth and pulled the marker and while holding the cap in his mouth put the end in the cap (are you getting the visual)(good).
Are you just waiting in anticipation of what he could have possibly written or drawn with his left hand (he is a righty). Even with his left hand and you could see the concentration that went into this, it was clearly: SOS!!! OMG if that did not break my heart...
Hasta luego.............................
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Maria,
Oh, yeah, that cracks the heart open some more.
And it's good news. Not only comprehension going on here, but letter recognition and production. And complex movement, like dealing with a pen one handed. Thanks for the visuals!
I was remembering hitchhiking long ago and getting picked up by a woman whose son had been injured in a motorcycle accident. He was in motorcycle movies, and later was on 3 wheel motorcycles. She spoke of how he learned to reroute information so that he could remember things. He found other neural pathways, or created them, after the injury.
This reminded me also that as babies we learn to move through actually moving and laying down the pathways through what's called mylenation. That means creating a fatty sheath (myelin sheath) around the nerve. Dean may be making new pathways so that he can swallow, learn to speak again, etc. It's all good. And it does take some time. He is on a healing journey; and literally exploring inside.
Your love and big heart is potent medicine. Never doubt that.
Love to you,
Clover
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