We are still keeping Jess very busy. He handles it pretty well and stays awake now most of the day. He has a lot of therapies, rides the horse 2 days a week and goes to school 3 half days a week.
Joey is leaving in a couple of weeks to return to Minneapolis. We have enjoyed and appreciated his humor, his never complaining willingness to help, his sincere love for his little brother, his companionship for Jess at home, school and during horse therapy, his card playing with his grandparents, his picking me up and making me laugh and his constant love and attention to all of us. We will miss him terribly. Three months has gone way too fast.
What will we do now...everyone asks? We will continue to look for someone to help us this summer and the school is looking for a CNA to accompany Jess to summer school and to school next year. We are also trying to get a ceiling lift for the house so I can move Jess by myself. We just have to trust it will all work out.
School is almost over and graduation is next week. They have invited Jess , Chris and I to attend the celebration of the senior class graduating. We have decided to decline. It was a hard decision but we feel if Jess did understand that his class is graduating it could be very depressing for him. If he doesn't understand it would be too overwhelming for him to attend. And, Chris and know it would be extremely emotional for us. It is a day of celebration for his friends and we want them to indeed "Celebrate". Please be so careful...you are not invinceable and your life can change from having a great time to struggling to survive in an instant. We want to wish the entire graduating class of 2005 the best always! Know that Jess would give anything to be walking down that path with all of you. Here is one of his favorite sayings:
"Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps...more interesing because of them." -Robert R. Updegraff (author of "Be Thankful for your Troubles")
I have so missed having 3 or 4 boys sleeping on Jess' floor 2 or 3 days a week this year. I have had kids in my house for 31 years now and I really miss them. Hopefully as Jess recovers a little more, his friends will be more comfortable to visit and spend time with him again. I'm sure he will look forward to hear about all he has missed.
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