SO this week has kind of been a big week, we got our Neuro Psych eval results back on Tuesday... It was all good news, basically after it being only 7 months since our accident my "glass" is 3/4 full. The other 1/4 is all stuff that we kinda knew already, but it was really good to get more information on everything. I guess I still do have some big deficits that are putting me below the baseline for people like me, and there's a couple things that he thought I would be rating higher for by now but Im not. At the end of the day, my judgement and reasoning is still off (which explains why I have no filter when I talk to people) Its like my brakes are broken, which is ironic because my brakes are the reason Im in this situation to begin with. I can focus really good on a single task, but when you start throwing more things into the equation it gets harder and a lot more exhausting. He gave us a great example of this, imagine opening up a program on an old computer, It responds fairly quickly. Now open up 3 more programs.. the computer starts to really slow down and takes longer to respond. Now open up 2 more programs. the computer then freezes and needs to shut down and reboot because it gets too overwhelmed. That computer is my brain, which also explains my whacky left hand. I can move my finger at the same pace ask my right finger but when I try to do more detailed things and focusing on something at the same time, my brain starts to get overwhelmed and slows right down which then delays the messages being sent to my left hand, and that's why it gets confused, my spatial awareness is still way off, my balance is still off and then on top of that my vision still, we have todo a balance test also because that's still off too. More positive news, I got given the green light to get back into driving here in the next few months!in order todo that though, I have to take a couple of driving lessons first and then see this OT that specializes in rehab driving for brain injuries. We get to drive again soon! WOOHOOO this is all great news in my eyes! Theres a tiny voice in the back of my head telling me Im not ready though, I get exhausted and cranky when Im over stimulated and overwhelmed what is driving going to do to me?
On the mom side of the coin, our girl has flown by her 6 month mark, growing like a weed. She went and got her 6 month vaccines and is 15 pounds of cuteness now. Shes LOVING the solids and her whacky sisters. The cats have really come around to her now, Little Zoe actually snuggles her at night. The dog just loves her too, she hates it when Goose gets into her bubble though. Besides that its been going super well, at the begining of the week she was pushing her bedtime to 11pm and would only fall asleep if we went for a drive. We caught on to her tricks though, only took 3 late nights. We figured out to move her last nap from 6pm to 4ish-5pm, her wake times have been longer so this makes sure shes actually tired by 9. Once we got a hand on that there has been alot less late nights but alot of early mornings. We're talkin 4:30am, not sure if theres a growth spurt, leap, or sleep regression happening here but were makin the best of it. Now that the suns out too we've been spending our days outside, we were told by our doctors to try and incoperate some things we liked todo before the accident to improve our mental health, because were both not doing that great in that department, and to get some normalcy back in our lives. So we're going to try go camping for Easer long, Im definetly nervous. Its going to be alot with a dog and a baby, nevermind a brain injury. We're considering this a trial run, we're only going for 2 nights where as before we would go for 3-4. Im looking forward to getting outside, the change of scenery and to show our mini bestie how much fun camping is. This spring/ summer is going to be alot different then how our previous ones were but its going to be the best one yet.
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