Author: Dee Maier

The past several weeks for me have been quite the ride. This ninth week being the best,  HOME! It all started with a bang. And that was my head hitting a post on a bridge at the bottom of a hill. A hill I had ridden down a couple hundred times before. And then came …

One last physical therapy session, lots of hugs and well wishes from nurses, techs, other patients and their families, final discharge information and Noah was on his way home. His first stop was to see friends: Alexa, Brenna, and Connor to hand off the long awaited Nerf Mod. What a home coming with balloons and …

….and Noah is being discharged tomorrow! It is wonderful to hear the words that Noah is doing too well for any further in-patient therapy at Craig Hospital. He’s having his last EEG done this morning and final testing will be part of his day with his other therapists.  Out-patient therapy at Craig begins officially on …

This week began the 4th week of rehabilitation at Craig Hospital. Noah continues to show improvement in all areas of therapy. It is also more work for him, and sometimes less fun. Fortunately for him, that is offset with Technology Therapy (where he is making good use of their Virtual Reality) a couple of times …

Who would’ve known where Noah would be this far into his recovery, except of course, all of you who have continued to pray, send positive vibes and thoughts, and encourage Noah to pursue the great things he’s destined for.  You’ve carried us, when it was just too much to bear on our own, and now …

One of many of the paradoxes of TBI is the need for and benefit of rest but the difficulty to sleep, much less sleep at the right time of day (i.e. night), Noah is slowly adjusting but still cannot stay asleep through the night. His Tech’s encourage him to just rest/relax but that is not …

Noah is slowly settling into a routine:  breakfast, PT and/or OT, with typically an hour in between to allow for rest, lunch, SPT, and then dinner. Thomas, Gabriella, and I are now “on campus pass” trained where we are allowed to be with Noah alone in the room, around the inside of the hospital, and …

We’re in day 2 of Craig Hospital (CH). Yesterday was introductions to the team, orientation (mostly finding the cafeteria – Noah’s appetite remains healthy even though we’re seeing signs of his “discriminating” taste returning) and today was the first day of testing (initially there will be more testing and less therapy but that will change …