Coming Back to Life

As of this week, I have basically stopped using the walker!!! The only time I'm using it is at the gym, and hope to stop taking it there soon. Now I can walk all over my house by myself. Yesterday, I went to CVS to pick up my prescription, walked all over Home Depot, all over the grocery store, and finally went out to eat with my family at On The Border. Obviously, this is thanks to more healing from Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior! I've also been slowly reducing a muscle relaxer I have been taking for two and half years. My doctor thinks my body may not need the amount I have been taking since I'm healthy now. Those two factors combined have let me break out of my “cage” as my mom and sister called it. Thanks for all the continued prayers and support. I very much appreciate it!

Hello all my loyal blog followers . . . I did not know there were so many of you out there, so I'll be updating this more often. Since my last update, I graduated PT and Speech at HEB. I still go there for Occupational Therapy where I work on my fine motor skills, handwriting, and other things that have to do with my hands. I am still going to Goddard Sports Therapy in Coppell where I still get ASTYM treatment, work on core strengthening, flexibility, and walking without the walker. I've started going to a gym where I work out three days a week. It's called the Neuro Fitness Foundation. It's a gym for people with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, or people that have had a stroke. The equipment is set up to accommodate people in a wheelchair or you can just use it normally. The gym also has staff on hand to help you if you need assistance. So like for me, I need help getting from one weight machine to the other, and adjusting the weights. I recently got...

After many weeks of trying to tweak my medication, my doctor and I came to the conclusion to just go back to what I was on before all this happened. I'm doing much better now - I have stopped falling. Every once in a while though, I'll still have some anxiety and take a tumble, but for the most part I'm back to where I was before all this happened. Thanks to everyone out there for your thoughts and prayers. It seems like every day now I can do something new that hadn't been able to do before. I am now able to write the whole alphabet from A to Z, I have started shaving with an electric shaver (I never would have had the control to handle that even two months ago), and finally sitting down at the piano and trying to push each key down with each individual finger. My doctor says even if I can't push a certain finger down that that is due to weakness, and just the act of trying to push the key down is strengthening my fingers. I will keep you all up to date on any new ...

It has been a frustrating start to the new year. I've been going through some medicine changes, and it has been causing me to be very shaky and fall a lot. In the past couple of weeks I've probably fallen over 20 times. I even fell in the bathroom and knocked a hole in the wall. To look on the bright side, thanks to the imprint of my backside in the wall we get to redo the whole bathroom. Even as I sit here at the computer, it is very hard to even control the mouse. Sometimes it just goes flying in the air. Please pray for me. I just want to feel better!