Greatest Father's Day Present EVER!

[ArcticChicken]

That is fantastic!!

[Mishi]

That's wonderful! *Happy dance* Still praying for a full recovery. Thanks Jester for sharing her progress!

[dragon_wings]

Woohoo! That's great!

[Jester]

This may seem like a small update, but to me it's huge.

Her husband posted last night on facebook about his last visit, and how she is talking more and more, but the part that just got me was the last thing he said:

"When I was leaving I told her "you will get better" and she said "I know...I will, I will, I will, I will" very determinedly."

You go, sis!

[Gumby30]

Wooohoooo! So glad she's continuing to improve and long may it continue!

[MoonCat]

I was wondering what was happening with her. This is great to hear!

[Jester]

I will be seeing her in jut a few weeks. Getting a flight for late September home.

Amusingly, dork that I am, I booked my flight earlier this afternoon, and after going all the way through confirming it with my credit card, I realized....I had booked the wrong dates. Dates I have commitments to be here. Luckily I was able to cancel with absolutely no penalty, but still....dumb.

In any case, I'll get to talk to her in person in just a few weeks, and am very stoked, as the last time I saw her was in January, when she was still pretty much in absentia.

Amusingly, when I was talking to my stepfather today, I told him that I was going to gloat. And I did. After all, when he told me that the doctors had told him that for her to gain any meaningful brain function it would basically take a miracle, I said without hesitation, "I believe in miracles." Later that day (Father's Day) she started speaking. Also, way back in January, I said that it seemed to me that she was there, but just trying to figure out how to get out....and that pretty much is what is going on now.

Stepdad told me to gloat away. And I knew he would. After all, how can anyone really have a problem with what's happening?

Shit, when I asked Stepdad what the doctors were doing now (you know, the same group of people that had said it would take a miracle), he said they have no answer, that they were basically "astounded" by what's happening. From what he said, it sounds as if they have never seen anything like it.

To quote Al Michaels nauseatingly yet again, "Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!"

[RootedPhoenix]

*happy dances* Wonderful news! YAY!

[Jester]

I'll be landing in Phoenix in 45 days. I'll be seeing my stepsister in 45 or 46 days.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

Dang. By then she might be all better!
(yeah, I dd see the 'long road ahead' bits... but still. Crazy has happened once, yeah?)

[chikenlady]

This may seem like a small update, but to me it's huge.

Her husband posted last night on facebook about his last visit, and how she is talking more and more, but the part that just got me was the last thing he said:

"When I was leaving I told her "you will get better" and she said "I know...I will, I will, I will, I will" very determinedly."

You go, sis!

Jester, there is no such thing as a small update or little progress where Miss Freak is concerned. Every new thing she can do shows her determination and spirit.

It also proves that miracles can happen.

[firecat88]

Speaking as one miracle to another (when I was born, the doctors weren't expecting much from me because of my spina bifida/hydrocephalus combo, even after my shunt placement surgery), here's to hoping that Miss Freak continues to prove to them that miracles happen. Until every last possible option, every possible treatment, has been well and truly exhausted (and sometimes not even then), the words 'never gonna happen' should never enter one's vocabulary. Every bit of progress she makes, no matter how subtle or how seemingly small, is a miracle.

[Jester]

Dang. By then she might be all better!
(yeah, I dd see the 'long road ahead' bits... but still. Crazy has happened once, yeah?)

There's crazy, and there's completely nutso. Look, she is making progress by leaps and bounds. But even I, the eternal optimist, don't see her as all better in the next month and a half. Far more improved than even the doctors could predict? Sure. Aware of her surroundings and more cognizant of her life? Possibly. But even if tomorrow she woke up and her head was completely back to normal, she still has a long road of physical therapy ahead of her.

Tell ya what, though....when she finally gets to the point of coming to Key West to visit (which she will), I know scores of people ready to buy her a drink. I dare say she won't need to bring beer money with her. And I am not even slightly exaggerating. I get people down here asking me about her progress all the time.

[Eisa]

That's so awesome you get to see her soon.

Yay for miracles.

[ArcticChicken]

Tell ya what, though....when she finally gets to the point of coming to Key West to visit (which she will), I know scores of people ready to buy her a drink. I dare say she won't need to bring beer money with her. And I am not even slightly exaggerating. I get people down here asking me about her progress all the time.

When she comes to visit you in Key West, I'll send you money to buy her a drink.