Long Overdue Update

Mom and Dad have been home about a week now. Dad has an appointment scheduled with the new doctor in Lake Charles for tomorrow. He said Mom is doing well, and seems to be retaining her mental gains. Whenever we talk on the phone he always puts her on and with a prompt she will say hello and call us by name. We will find out more about her on-going treatment after the appointment tomorrow. It has been about two weeks since her last injection, so hopefully we will start seeing more gains after the next one.

We have gotten some feedback from friends and family at home. They do notice a change in Mom, and generally say she seems more focused. I also got an e-mail from one of Mom's friends, I am going to post an excerpt. I hope she doesn't mind.

"I saw your parents yesterday at City Cafe. She recognized me and your Dad told her to say hello to [me]. Which she did. We sat at another table and Joyce started walking
around and came to our table and she patted me on the back. She usually is not
comfortable with being touched. I almost cried I was so glad that she had done that."

I also got an update from Dad last weekend where he said . . .

"Today when I put out the recycle can your mom pointed to the garbage can and I told her to bring it to the street which she did. She stopped doing that before I went to LA"

So we are still noticing changes and improvements. We got a little off schedule with the trip home and the process to change doctors. But the progress is still there and we can get back to regular injections going forward. The potential for her to regain some communication skills is there, and I am so much more hopeful after hearing about her responding to Dad's question with a full sentence on the drive home. It's still in there, I can feel it. We just have to give the treatment more time.