Tuesday August 10th, 2010

It has been a few days and everyone is probably wondering what has been happening and how is Alyson doing? Well she is doing very well. Everyday she is getting better. Her appetite is back to normal. She was never a big eater, but she does eat three meals a day with snacks in between. She is concentrating on eating more protein to help rebuild her muscles.

She is exercising or stretching everyday to help with the pain and to increase her back and neck movement. She can move her neck quite a bit more than just 5 days ago. She still has pain in her lower back, and she is still taking pain medication every 4 hours. She does tire easily, but is down to one nap a day. She cannot sit in one place for very long, and moves from one end of the couch to the other to both relieve the pain, and to stretch her muscles.

On Sunday we had about 25 people come by to see her here at the house. It was a great time together, and she enjoyed seeing everyone. After that she slept for 3 hours.

She has decided to cut off all her hair, so that it is all even now. Now it will all grow back at the same time. And when you get to the bottom of this page, you will see what she has received to cover that bald head. Although she has been out in public without it.

Her walking is much better. She is walking with more confidence and getting quite steady on her feet. Today she walked to the end of our street and back. She has not tried going up steps yet, She is still staying at our house until she can manage steps.

She has been to a few stores with her mom, and at each place she gets into the electric carts that they have. She is not the best driver, so lets hope she gets her walking legs back before she has any kind of serious accident.

Her stitches in her head will come out in a couple of days, and she starts physical therapy on Thursday.

I have received 35 e-mails for her in the last few days. It has been lots of fun for us to read the messages, to see who has been following this blog site. If you would like to send her an e-mail you can do so via my e-mail address. KERBY99@AOL.COM Under subject put "Alyee".

We still have some time before we decide if she is taking any classes this semester.

But if she does go to classes this fall, here is what she may look like walking the halls.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.