Sunday September 30, 2007

It has been a whole week since the last posting. Progress has been great. Each day Kelsi progresses toward resuming where she left off before the accident.
The last posting listed 6 areas where recovery was incomplete. Progress has been made in all areas:
1) Double Vision: Last week Kelsi had double vision nearly all day everyday. Now she is seeing normal each day and for increasing amounts of time. We expect that this problem will be completely gone in just a few weeks except possibly when she gets excessively tired.
2) Small motor skills: Kelsi's writing and walking both continue to improve. We expect it will be many months before the recovery is complete.
3) Muscles: Yesterday Kelsi walked for 15 minutes in 5 sets of 3 minutes on the elliptical. This is an improvement of her previous best of about 12 minutes. She also had a chance to lift weights this week. Full recovery will take many months.
4) Tired: Kelsi's days are now getting to be 12~14 hours of time awake with much of that time still being very tired. Again months to recover.
5) Missing data: There are no known large missing memories. Much of the small stuff that seemed to be missing now seems to have been due more to fatigue. This area may already be okay and just waiting for the "tired" to go away.
6) School: Kelsi will start with home-bound schooling where she will receive the same assignments as her class at school, but only start out with 2 classes: math and English. She will be graded pass/fail until she can compete at her grade level, then she will change back to letter grades. The school will work with Kelsi to help her to catch up with the time that is lost in an attempt to allow her to catch up with her classmates over time. The current goal is to have Kelsi attend 1 to 2 classes at school starting in about 6 weeks.
We strongly believe that as you continue to pray with us for Kelsi, she will continue to make progress at an accelerated rate. We thank you for yours faith and prayers.