We are getting ready for the big move this weekend to our new house in Culver City! I think I have written before about our dear friends the Millers who live 2 blocks over from the house. Lauren was at the ICU with me for every day (all 40) that I was in there. Among my first memories are of her face. Don can calm and play with James for hours. They have a special bond. Don and Lauren host our couples Small Group Bible Study. The Millers are true friends to us. Guess what? They just had a baby girl last Sunday! A little neighborhood playmate for James. Woohoo! Lauren is a brilliant writer (also a fabulous attorney who went to Yale undergrad and Berkley Law School) and is writing a novel while having a new baby at home. Can you imagine? Read details on her blog throughout this process. Today is actually the first day she is writing, so check on her status.
Speaking of childbirth, there is something very important about the art of visualizing (I’ll write another posting on another day about that. Suffice it to say, the mind is very influential.) There is something very valuable about visualization of the future, too. They say it is critical to brain injury recovery. The mind is very a powerful tool. This, along with the 1st time home buyer tax incentive, was the reason we bought the house in the 1st place. I have been visualizing my new house, and thus my new life, since last July. Before I was even able to eat, I would visualize me walking normally to our kitchen with a normal face and eating banana pancakes and drinking a mug of hot coffee on a Saturday morning with my family. Now, this can actually happen! Everything may not be perfect, but I guess it never is in life anyway. What a joy to be a part of something so beautiful. Even though I am the one living this, I feel just like all of you – watching and praying as this miracle slowly unfolds. I’m going to be sure to send “We’ve Moved” cards to all the therapists and all the hospitals where I have been. I’m sure they will be in shock.
More to come as we approach the move…
I am so excited for you guys to get into your house!! What fun that will be:) Miss you guys!
So happy for you. Your posts are the highlights of my week. They are so inspiring!
As usual you make me sound much more impressive than I am.
I cannot WAIT for you to move in!!!!!!!!! Banana pancakes at my place, whoo hoo! With a cup of champagne, of course.
We are all so happy for you! We will pray for the day when that prayer list is down to one or two deficits.
I am so jealous you’re moving next to L&D!!! Love reading your posts. I look forward to hearing about those pancakes. Yea!!! Praying for you…
xoxo,
Erika
I am so incredibly excited for you! I’ll be praying for you all this weekend.
Hi Katherine,
I have followed your website since your stroke. I heard about you from my cousin, who is an actor in LA. I love reading about all your progress.
After reading this recent posting, I am wondering what options have been explored for increased right upper extremity function? I am an occupational therapist in SC, and work on an outpatient rehab clinic specializing in brain injury. We have used the SaeboFlex for arm re-training, and it can have good results especially with the neuro population. I don’t know from your post what exact use you have, but it would be worth checking this device out!
blessings in this new chapter of your journey…may it be the best