Rehab they said No, No, No - Day 91

This morning at 11 am we met with doctor to get the results of the neuro psych evaluation.  The doctor said that Archie's recovery was exceptional.  He said that Archie does well with open-ended questions and organization.  The doctor also said that Archie showed frustration when there were no instructions and unstructured.  The left side of Archie's brain was affected by aneurysm because that is where the bleed was and the left side of the brain controls the right side of his body.  During the evaluation they observed his right and left hand motion they noticed that the right hand was slower and the not as coordinated as the left hand was.  The doctor said that Archie should go back to work gradually, when I asked what that meant he said an example would be 2 weeks of 4 hour days, 2 weeks of 6 hour days and then go full time.  Obviously that cannot work for everyone so he said he will have to figure out what works for him - for example tomorrow Archie will work a full day because I am going back to work and he is carpooling with Matt out to Ft. Worth so Wednesday might be a shorter day.  Once Archie goes back to work he can see if there are any issues with the right hand, clumsiness or if anything is bothering the doctor can set him up with a short stint of occupational therapy.  If Archie is having some memory or cognitive issues the doctor can set him up with a few sessions of cognitive rehab to help him with some strategies to help his memory.  Recovery from brain injuries is usually 6- 18 months according to the doctor.  Archie's life will probably not ever go back to the way it was, just like my life probably will not either.  He said we will have a "new normal" life, he expects Archie to be recovered in 3 - 6 months from today.  Archie will accomodate for his deficiencies and figure out work arounds for his weaknesses.  Overall it was a positive meeting and there is not any therapies.  I told Archie afterwards "they tried to make you go to rehab and they said no, no, no."

We stopped to check out a job on the way home and then headed home.  This afternoon we went to the grocery store for some food options for dinner.  We had dinner provided by my mom's friend, Maureen and it was great. 

Tomorrow I go back to work which I am pretty excited about because that means we are headed back to "normal".  The only thing I am not excited about is email because I have not checked it in 3 months.  That will be fun!  Archie is going to drive to Lewisville and then carpool over to Ft. Worth with Matt.  Have a good Tuesday!