This blog was created to document our experience dealing with Bailey, our 16 year old daughter's stroke. Until September 15th, she was a perfectly healthy, active teenage girl. She is a junior in high school this year. She has a part time job, many friends and a busy social life. She is involved with the marching band, cross country skiing and the school theater group. Her class schedule reads like that of my nightmares - Honors classes, Advanced placement classes and even a "college in school" physics class. She has a smile that shows itself with the slightest of provocation. She is happy, easy going and a bit goofy. Generally, there was no reason to expect any health issues and definitely we would not ever have even thought a stroke was a possibility.

So, this is our story. I am hoping it will help others who experience this sort of misfortune to understand they are not alone. Maybe they are feeling the way we do and will take some comfort our story.

Friday, October 1, 2010

A discharge date on the horizon

Yesterday we found out that they have set tentative discharge date is October 19th!  Bailey will get to go home for an overnight stay on the 16th for a sort of trial run.  They will have her fill out a worksheet that lets them know what sort of struggles she had so that they can then spend her last few days in therapy working on improving those skills.

In preparation for this, today we practiced transfers (getting in and out of the wheelchair) into and out of a car!  She did really well and didn't need any assistance at all.  She is so ready to get out of this place.  She wants to go back to school.

She asked her therapist yesterday is going home on the 19th meant she could go back to school on the 20th!  I told her that she may have the only truly valid reason to miss a bunch of school and that maybe she should quit rushing it and she rolled her eyes at me and laughed.
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