It’s been a while

23. August 2009 by admin.

 I know it has been a while since the last update. SORRY. Sarah had a great summer.

First I will go over the doctor/therapy stuff.  Her EEG she had (I think I wrote about it on the last update) looked good. At least that is what we are told. I guess the bad side of her brain is still firing off but we have seen no indications of seizures so praise the Lord for that. Sarah had a neuropsych test done to see where she is at mentally. She has shown much improvement since her last one. She also took a test during her speech therapy session. She scored low average for her age group which is way down from where she was before she got sick, but improved over where she was at after her surgery. Her therapists want her to cut back to once a week. They say that she is through the surgical rehab part of her therapy and will be just working on long term therapy. She does get some therapy at school, and we will work with her more at home too. She is also getting a new leg brace that is smaller. It will stop right about the ankle.

Well we had a meeting last week with what seemed like the entire staff at her school. We discussed in detail what Sarah is going to need for this school year. We described where she is at physically and mentally. Some of the people had yet to meet her since she is in a new school this year. She won’t have a full time aid at her side all the time this year, but there is a good support system in place for her. Our school district has been great making sure Sarah is getting all the help she needs. She is riding the school bus this year. Kim was a little nervous the first day so she followed the bus all the way to school, but they have a teacher waiting to assist her with getting off the bus. Her friend Marissa has been really great with helping her.

Sarah started cheerleading again. She had her first game today up in Waynesville (Madison won 30-0). She is doing what she can with the cheers, but sometimes gets too lazy with using her bad arm.

Sarah’s eighth birthday party (not at the hospital, yeah)

 
More birthday

 
Sarah with her friends Marissa and Abbey

 
We went to a butterfly festival (don’t ask)

 
Kim with the girls

In a firetruck with Marissa

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