Looking ahead!

As we already know, David will be released on Friday. Mom had a meeting with some of David's doctors to talk about the next steps ahead of him. He will be starting therapy at P.V. Hospital. They talked about David hopefully starting to take a couple of college classes next fall. They are working on his ability to focus. David's ability to do things like he did before should return over the next two years. He has been given a 40% chance to get back to 100% of himself. He may find that he has to develop new ways to do things and that may be very frustrating at the beginning. He will have scar tissue on his brain so things may be hard to do that weren't before. He is anxious to get off his cast so that he can get back to playing the piano. That was his way of relieving frustration before the injury and he is ready to get back to playing the piano. The doctors really stressed that David needs to be protected from any other head trauma. This is the #1 concern for any brain injury patient. If he reinjures his brain during the first year of recovery it would be bad. It could be 20 times worse and he could possibly never recover and/or reverse his progress permanently. So in other words, we have to remember that David's brain is very fragile. We know that David has broken his wrist because there is a cast on it. The doctor's can't put a cast on his brain so it is up to us to remember. Mom is very worried about how to protect him so that all of his prgress won't go to waste. As for driving, David will have to undergo extensive testing from his doctors before he can get his license back. It will be at least 6 months to a year before he can get his license again. He will also have to wait before he goes on his mission. So Mom wanted everyone to be aware of this so that if she appears very protective about the things that David does, it is because she is and will continue to be.
Now a side note about David' progress: Mom noticed on Monday after prom that things were not going well at therapy. He had too much stimulation at prom with all of the loud music, strobe lights and lots of people and conversations. He seemed to be "hypertalking" all day meaning he was talking non-stop. He went to bed late and woke up at 1:00 am wired and still couldn't get to sleep. These are the effects that Mom has noticed when David gets too stimulated. Hopefully, there won't be too many other major events that David needs to go to so that he can continue progressing.