December 9th, 2005

Well, I made it home a couple of days ago and it has been very quiet in my house. I found out that I have no "ridges" in my fingerprints and that is why they refused my clearance. Too much tile setting I guess. So, I had to go to the local police station, he sprayed some special foam on my fingertips and did an ink card print. I sent them off by Fed X and hopefully we will hear back before the 17th. In the meantime, I am catching up on a lot of stuff left undone for the last year and a half and Chris and Jess are doing just fine. They are very busy.

Chris met with a neurologist, who was very positive and hopeful, a counselor who has worked with brain injuries for 25 years and parents with sons in the same condition as Jess. One boy was in a car on his 17th birthday. Jess was on a bicycle yesterday and the therapist thought she felt his right leg firing. They all comment on how hard he is trying and they have told Chris it takes a lot out of Jess just to try to make one muscle move. He has speech therapy sometimes twice a day. His tongue is very weak so the therapist inserts a small sponge on a stick into his mouth and pushes on his tongue to make him push back and work the muscles controlling the tongue. It will help his swallowing and speech. She also works diligently to get a yes/no with his eyes. As I have felt for a long time, Jess needs speech therapy every single day. He needs to be able to have choices. The rehabilitation aids help Chris in the evening and continue to work with Jess...reading to him, showing him pictures, asking him to move his hands, arms and legs and they give Chris a break.

We are all so thankful that we could give Jess this opportunity. Our insurance is covering 3 weeks at CNS and depending on how Jess progresses we will see what happens next. I am learning to trust that everything will show up when it is suppose to...it's the only way to survive. I miss them terribly but know I will be there again soon with renewed energy. Thanks again to all for your support!

P.S. Sorry about all the bad messages in the questbook. I guess it is a program that searches out websites with a lot of hits and attaches to it. Joey is working on getting rid of them.