Hi all,

My apologies for taking so long to get this out.  For some of you this will be old news.
We're settling into a routine here at home. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons Andrea gets outpatient therapy at Carilion NRV Medical Center, a nearby hospital. She gets Physical therapy, Occupational and Speech therapy each three times a week. They have me observe her sessions so I can get a sense of her strengths and weaknesses, and how to help her best.
She's doing very well with both her PT and OT. I'm told they might drop her back to one PT and two OT sessions a week starting the first week of March. Her Speech therapy will continue at three sessions a week, as this is her biggest deficit. Speech here also includes cognitive abilities. Andrea's all in all doing amazingly well given where she was not too long ago, but still has quite a ways to go before she's completely back. She still frequently loses her train of thought, and often has difficulty finding a specific word. She gets around just fine, and we're looking forward to warmer weather so we can get out for walks. She still officially needs constant supervision, but this mostly means hanging out with her and visiting- it's mostly a safety concern more than anything else- having someone around in case something happens.
Andrea mostly just hangs out during the day. Her energy level is still low, and she still needs a lot of sleep, naps included.  She's not had the temerity to deal with email or blogging, and only does the phone for short "Hello's" when people call. She says it'll all come back in due time, like many of the other things she used to normally do.
In addition to her speech therapy at Carilion, she also starts this week getting speech therapy at Radford University twice a week. It's in the same building where her office is, but she says she doesn't mind. As I don't need to be there, many very helpful and generous friends have offered to provide transportation for these trips. This will free my up to get some of life's chores done, and also to spend a bit more time on my day job. *Thanks!*
So, I don't expect to be sending updates as frequently, unless something changes worth  reporting. At some point I hope you'll get an email from her instead of me.
Thanks again for all the cards and flowers and gifts and well wishes. I do think they lifted her spirits when she needed to have them lifted.

-John