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Lindsey is slowly improving, though she is still waking with nausea and is quite tired…Spoke with neurology nurse Friday about Lindsey returning to school and she said they will not write a release until she’s completely symptom free for a minimum of 24 hours. Lindsey has an appointment with neurologist next Friday, but I’m hoping she can return sooner than that. Even though public school isn’t terribly challenging for her–it’s hard to be absent this much.
How soon into an illness does the school arrange for a tutor to come to the house? At this point, the real concern is she needs to heal and it’s so hard to grasp that with a brain injury. They look fine, but they’re not.
I told my dad once, “if you had broken your leg, we wouldn’t be having any of these discussions–we’d all see the big cast and recognize your inability to move well, and make allowances. Because it’s your brain, we can’t see it, you look normal, and we get impatient. I’m sorry.”
A friend’s daughter got a concussion as a senior in high school. They got impatient, she kept trying to return to school and work. Things didn’t go well, her senior year ended up being lost (there were other things going on, of course) and five years later she’s only now getting back on track.
I don’t mean to lecture, but I want to encourage you not to hurry it. Let her make up school in the summer, but she really, seriously, needs to lay low.
And, my guess, never ride a horse again. Just typing that makes me so very sad.
Please continue to pray for my women’s retreat
Aha moment from yesterday. There were several.
There is nothing spiritual about pretending things are OK when they really are not. What it really does is distance us from God. God can’t answer if we aren’t asking He is waiting on us to cry out to him.
Annmsw, what Michelle said. With daughter’s, they told her no school at all until she was approved symptom free. She was homeschooled so that meant no reading at all. They said no tv, no bright lights, no loud noise. It is a time of resting the brain, so the swelling can go down and the damage stopped rather than continuing. It is hard but it is important. And a second concussion could be much worse.
Praying for wisdom for you, Ann, as you consider what is in Lindsey’s best interests regarding cognitive rest and everything else that’s been proposed.
You may have already seen this article if you’ve researched concussion recovery at all, but I found it to be a very balanced, informative article on research findings and controversies regarding how much rest is appropriate. There are some in the medical community who question the prescription of complete rest until a post-concussive patient is completely asymptomatic, and the third page of this four-page article, along with the video on that page, explains why.
I’d encourage you to read the whole article and watch both videos. They contain good information for parents to consider regarding injured children’s physical and mental health as they recover from concussion.
(I don’t, however, know, if these findings are more appropriate for a child who has only experienced one concussion? I think Lindsey’s case is more complicated, being that this is her second concussion now, right? Am I remembering that correctly?)
Ann, think of it as a bruised brain. You know how tender and easily hurt again a bruised area is on your body. Well, in a concussion, the brain is bruised; and since it is a much more delicate organ than the skin is, the bruise is that much more tender and easily hurt. Do not worry about L missing school. She is at a crucial point of brain development as a young teen – her brain is rewiring itself right now. So a concussion that is not properly cared for could develop more serious problems in a girl of her age than in an adult with a similar concussion. She can catch up later.
I did something to my back the week Mama died. The doctor gave me pills that are not working and I am in very expensive physical therapy. It has moved into my shoulder and I can’t do anything. I just want to clean my house.It’s been nearly two years of not having time, People in my way and not not feeling up to it.It almost feels like a plot to keep me from it.
There is always a lot of interest in the children, when they are advertised that way. Generally, the children are put up on a photolisting and people can see them on there so their identities are not quite so compromised. Hopefully, the right family will come along. There will be a lot of screening though, before they just hand them to somebody from the comments section of a newspaper. And hopefully, the gaining family will go in with eyes wide open to the challenges in bringing in these children. Especially, any under age three. Praying for them.
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Good morning.
Lindsey is slowly improving, though she is still waking with nausea and is quite tired…Spoke with neurology nurse Friday about Lindsey returning to school and she said they will not write a release until she’s completely symptom free for a minimum of 24 hours. Lindsey has an appointment with neurologist next Friday, but I’m hoping she can return sooner than that. Even though public school isn’t terribly challenging for her–it’s hard to be absent this much.
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How soon into an illness does the school arrange for a tutor to come to the house? At this point, the real concern is she needs to heal and it’s so hard to grasp that with a brain injury. They look fine, but they’re not.
I told my dad once, “if you had broken your leg, we wouldn’t be having any of these discussions–we’d all see the big cast and recognize your inability to move well, and make allowances. Because it’s your brain, we can’t see it, you look normal, and we get impatient. I’m sorry.”
A friend’s daughter got a concussion as a senior in high school. They got impatient, she kept trying to return to school and work. Things didn’t go well, her senior year ended up being lost (there were other things going on, of course) and five years later she’s only now getting back on track.
I don’t mean to lecture, but I want to encourage you not to hurry it. Let her make up school in the summer, but she really, seriously, needs to lay low.
And, my guess, never ride a horse again. Just typing that makes me so very sad.
Praying for all of you, Ann.
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Lots of things going on in my family, most are good though a few discouraging, but all involve big changes, risk and possible disappointment.
And that doesn’t even include Stargazer, currently on a skiing trip with his uncle.
We all need discernment, wisdom and are asking for prayer: particularly me, my daughter and at least one son.
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Please continue to pray for my women’s retreat
Aha moment from yesterday. There were several.
There is nothing spiritual about pretending things are OK when they really are not. What it really does is distance us from God. God can’t answer if we aren’t asking He is waiting on us to cry out to him.
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Annmsw, what Michelle said. With daughter’s, they told her no school at all until she was approved symptom free. She was homeschooled so that meant no reading at all. They said no tv, no bright lights, no loud noise. It is a time of resting the brain, so the swelling can go down and the damage stopped rather than continuing. It is hard but it is important. And a second concussion could be much worse.
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Praying for wisdom for you, Ann, as you consider what is in Lindsey’s best interests regarding cognitive rest and everything else that’s been proposed.
You may have already seen this article if you’ve researched concussion recovery at all, but I found it to be a very balanced, informative article on research findings and controversies regarding how much rest is appropriate. There are some in the medical community who question the prescription of complete rest until a post-concussive patient is completely asymptomatic, and the third page of this four-page article, along with the video on that page, explains why.
I’d encourage you to read the whole article and watch both videos. They contain good information for parents to consider regarding injured children’s physical and mental health as they recover from concussion.
http://www.momsteam.com/concussion-physical-rest/concussion-recovery-starts-with-both-physical-and-cognitive-rest?page=0%2C0
(I don’t, however, know, if these findings are more appropriate for a child who has only experienced one concussion? I think Lindsey’s case is more complicated, being that this is her second concussion now, right? Am I remembering that correctly?)
You all are in my prayers, Ann.
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Michelle and Kim, praying for you, too.
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Ann, think of it as a bruised brain. You know how tender and easily hurt again a bruised area is on your body. Well, in a concussion, the brain is bruised; and since it is a much more delicate organ than the skin is, the bruise is that much more tender and easily hurt. Do not worry about L missing school. She is at a crucial point of brain development as a young teen – her brain is rewiring itself right now. So a concussion that is not properly cared for could develop more serious problems in a girl of her age than in an adult with a similar concussion. She can catch up later.
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I did something to my back the week Mama died. The doctor gave me pills that are not working and I am in very expensive physical therapy. It has moved into my shoulder and I can’t do anything. I just want to clean my house.It’s been nearly two years of not having time, People in my way and not not feeling up to it.It almost feels like a plot to keep me from it.
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KBells, that sounds like a frustrating place to be.
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Praying, KBells.
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Prayer for Kare and “the cold”.
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Let’s pray that these four siblings get a wonderful, Christian home together. . .
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/20160303/NEWS/160309678
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A follow-up article shows that there’s been a lot of interest in the children.
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There is always a lot of interest in the children, when they are advertised that way. Generally, the children are put up on a photolisting and people can see them on there so their identities are not quite so compromised. Hopefully, the right family will come along. There will be a lot of screening though, before they just hand them to somebody from the comments section of a newspaper. And hopefully, the gaining family will go in with eyes wide open to the challenges in bringing in these children. Especially, any under age three. Praying for them.
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Here is one such website:
https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Application/TARE/Search.aspx/NonMatchingSearchResults
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I’m sorry for your pain, KBells. Chronic pain, and grieving — each hard in their own way — make for a difficult combination. Prayers for you.
Kare, prayers for you and your husband with the illnesses you’ve been battling. Sounds like it’s been a long haul.
Praying for those four children, too, that you posted about, Karen.
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Thanks, everyone, for the advice and prayers. I truly appreciate them.
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Prayers
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