How is She Doing?

Reading through past posts, I realize that sometimes we don't do a good job of simply stating how Marilyn is doing. So here it is. We are five months out from her injury and by all accounts - medical and therapuetic - she is doing well. The main challenge in our first five weeks home was the lack of expert neurological monitoring. We had to go a bit on faith that she was improving. So on our return to Craig last week, it was great to hear both her nuero docs and the neuropsychologist reiterate that Marilyn was doing very well and would continue to do very well.

Her left side continues to strengthen and become less clumsy. As the snow melts out here in Dolores, we are hopeful that she can begin to walk around town without having to depend on someone to walk with her. She still has double vision and this remains the main obstacle to complete independence. Without her vision resolved, she cannot drive, steps and uneven ground are harder to negotiate and vision in dim light or darkness is very difficult.

To this end, we are continuing with prism glasses and aggressive therapy to resolve the eye issue. The other end of the equation is suppression - which will happen anyway, so we figure out why not try the new in the event that it works.

From the outside looking in, I see Marilyn becoming sharper every single day. That's the best way I can describe it. We're certainly not at a point where I forget she is injured, (although I really look forward to that day) but it is at least becoming more and more background. And that allows me to hand her more and more of her life back, which will be the subject of my next post....