Today was our last day here in Conroe. We went over to Darcy’s house to do our laundry and I threw together my Val’s Surprise Pot Roast in the crock-pot so we would have dinner when we got back home.
Darcy wasn’t having a good day today. As I have said before people healing from brain trauma do not like change. Darcy has been at Touchstone a week today. Up until today she had someone with her all day to guide her through her day to make sure that she didn’t do anything to further injure her pelvis. She is coming along well. It has been 6 weeks now since her accident and most of her bones are pretty much healed, average time is 6 to 8 weeks. The pelvis takes longer but is coming along real well too. Darcy was not happy that they took her helper away from her today which caused a lot of stress. Then today was her first assessment meeting. The hard part for brain trauma victims is that they don’t get that anything is wrong with them, even when they are being emotional and hyper-verbal, which is what Darcy is at Touchstone for, to get the right medicine and therapies to help get all that under control. It is a challenge trying to heal someone who doesn’t think they need it. Darcy talks like she can just go home and everything will be fine, yet she can’t even push herself in the wheelchair yet or walk more than 20 feet with her walker. The family is all real happy with the care she is receiving. She didn’t like hearing that it might be at least a year before she could go back to the work she was doing before and that she might be at Touchstone three to four months. That should all change as her brain heals and she makes progress in her therapies. Darcy’s Dad and Sister were part of the meeting via conference call which was nice for them being so far away. We had a lovely dinner with Gretchen after our visit with Darcy.
Today was cloudy and cold again and it rained during the night. Tomorrow we will have just a short ride. We are heading up to Livingston to stay at the Escapees headquarters and it is just a couple hours from here. Now that we are in Texas we figure we might as well check it out some more. Too cold to go anywhere else!
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