Tuesday, August 26, 2008

No Plateau in Sight

This is hard. We do need a lot of wisdom to figure out how to make this work. It is a steep learning curve.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Steep Learning Curve Ahead

How blessed we are to have summer open - and especially with the timing of things this year.

Towards the end of the last school year, David was doing less physical therapy than he is this summer. Things have shifted a great deal, particularly after our visit to the stroke specialist at UCSF. At her advice he has taken on a different type of therapy and is finding it very effective.

Currently David is doing 10 hours per week of physical therapy, and he has the time to devote to that now. As I said, we are blessed to have summer open.

David begins teaching on August 11, so he will need to figure out how to balance full time work with 10 hours of therapy. That's going to be challenging enough, but it's not just his personal schedule that is becoming busier. With the start of the new school year everything gets busier for all of us. Sports and piano lessons and youth group and all their other activities begin again for the boys - which means a lot of chauffering on the part of their parents! I also am going back to work and am finishing my thesis this semester, so it will be a busier one than usual for me, which means I can't take as much pressure off of David as I would like to in order to open up time for him to keep at the therapy (and given what my study is, it is not something that can be shifted to another semester or I would do so).

Things are going well. Life is headed in a good direction. We are busy, but the things we are busy with are good things. We just need wisdom at this point in terms of finding the balance that is going to allow David to continue to progress. David is making progress, but it has slowed to a snail's pace, and if he lets up on his therapy, his progress is going to halt or regress, especially since he spends a lot of time sitting at a desk during his work day. It is important that a way is made for him to keep it up the PT.

I think the next few weeks are going to be a steep learning curve for our whole family as we all try to make the balance work. If you are praying for us, that is our request right now - that God will guide us as we move into a very different and much busier routine - and also that we will all have patience with each other as we figure this out together! Thank you!!