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.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Struggling with school work

Tonight we sat down to review and work on some of the school work that the teachers have sent home. Bailey quickly became very overwhelmed. One of the side effects of the stroke is some mild reading comprehension issues. She can read things to herself and answer question about it but the reading takes forever. She has to read and re-read it and it just goes slowly. She got frustrated and wanted to give up. We tried having me read it aloud to her and she just couldn't follow any of it. It was heartbreaking to watch her struggle.

We did find one assignment that went well for it. It was a Social Studies word scramble. These she can glance at and get without thought. How come she can't do that when the words are not scrambled?
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