So I am sitting here with Adri at my parents house. She is resting a bit in between visitors. I look around the place and here is what I see:
-The scrapbook with all of your notes, pictures and stories. Adri says she looks at this daily and it makes her smile.
-Tons of beautiful flowers in various colors.
-The closet doors in the bedroom are covered with cards and notes from all of you. She looks at them before she goes to bed and when she wakes up.
She continues to tell me how she feels so loved and how she truly believes all of the support has made a difference in her recovery.
As you know Adri is a pretty active person, she doesn't like to sit home and watch the boob tube. She is getting a little, ok maybe a lot, bored. But the problem is she still doesn't have the stamina to do much. She just had a visitor and as soon as she left Adri closed her eyes. I brought over all my cheesy DVDs to try and give her some entertainment since she is still struggling a bit with reading.
Some big news today, Adri has ditched the walker! She is walking on her own, although carefully. She is still working on her balance and getting her footing right but this is a big step towards recovery.
Tomorrow is going to be another butt numbing experience! She is going back to Stanford to get her 28 staples in her head out and the 3 sutures in her belly button. They had to do a mini liposuction from her belly, like there was anything there! They took some of that fat and created a "fat dam" where the tumor was in order to create a dam between her brain and her spinal fluid. Is that gross or what? Our whole family offered to be donors but no such luck!
I hope that once Adri gets her staples out she will be up for some blog postings. Look for another update tomorrow evening!
Thanks again for everything!
Allison
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