Monday, February 12, 2007

Hello everyone!
Here are my two cents about Brian:
He is doing great :) He makes little improvements every single day. He chats up a storm with me and is still the same funny guy that we all know and love. His long term memory seems perfectly fine, he remembers everything and everyone. His short term memory is pretty bad and he seems to forget things after about 2 or 3 minutes. I think that this is pretty normal and it should start to come back soon. For now maybe this is a good thing because he doesn't really know what is wrong with him so he doesn't get a chance to get depressed about it. Physically- he is doing great. He is exceeding all the expectations of the physical and occupational therapists and they brag about him after every session. He can sit up on his own and control his own head which he could not do AT ALL in the beginning. He kicks his right leg around a lot and can push himself with his feet in his wheelchair. He has been doing some standing excercises and hopefully walking (can you believe it?!) will start next week. I'm so happy that he can now eat and drink water, and I'm sure he is pretty happy about that too!
Overall he continues to amaze me every day, and I think he is going to be back in full Brian force before we all know it.

Love,

Rachel :)

1 comment:

auntdeb said...

Rachel, thank you so much for your update. We are just thrilled to hear the good progress that Brian is making ... the two of you are so adorable in the picture posted on the blog. God bless you! Aunt Deb