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18 weeks


erobertson

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(Originally posted June 21, 2009)

 

In an hour and a half or so, J.J. will be 18 weeks out from his stroke. It's getting far enough away that I don't always remember the weekly anniversaries. Wonder when I'll start getting through the 15th of each month without thinking about it as well?

 

This week has been kind of tumultuous. J.J. had his neuropsychologist appointment on Thursday, where he was put through eight hours of strenuous cognitive testing to determine what deficits he has that will need to be compensated for to get him back to work. We won't have results for a couple of weeks. But the process really messed up J.J.'s speech Thursday and Friday. It was getting better yesterday, but he's been overdoing it on the knee and his speech is bad again today. In fact, I've had to tell him to stop talking a couple of times today because he wasn't making any sense and because it was such slow going that I wasn't getting anything done. And because, God help me, but everytime he starts doing the "ummmm....uhhhhhh....mmmmm..." thing while he's trying to think of a word, I want to throw myself off the proverbial cliff.

 

It's really strange to be in this position. It's been long enough and J.J. is doing better enough that I think most of the world has forgotten about us. But the fight is far from finished, and right now, I think we're both about out of knots to tie in the rope to help us hold on. We leave for our vacation in less than six days, so hopefully that will rejuvenate us enough to fight another day.

 

Oh, and did I mention that Leah came down with Hand, Foot and Mouth disease and Eli had what I believe was his first migraine on Friday night? Fun times.

 

No one has ever needed a vacation more than we do, that's for sure.

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