One Year Later
Posted By Kathleen David on December 28, 2013
We are home from our travels for a couple of days before we start traveling again for a convention. Fortunately our cat sitter is going to be around until mid-January and is more than happy to take care of things. Last year she did a yeoman’s worth of work keeping things together until I could get home.
It was a year ago that I was sitting in a hospital having to sign forms for Peter and make decisions as they tried to work out what was going on with his body.
We learned later that he had a stroke in the pons region of his brain causing a lot of problems to the right side of his body and we started this roll coaster of the ride we have been on.
It has been scary but we feel so grateful that we are where we are today.
Peter has regained so much. He is walking without a cane. He can move his right arm. He can type. His vision is fine. He can take care of himself. All these are blessings. He worked very hard to get all that back. He decided that he was going to be himself again and did everything he needed to make sure it happened. His rehab facility holds him up as an example of a can-do attitude.
He never lost any of his intellect or wit through out the whole things. He had the doctors and nurses laughing along with anyone else who came into his orbit. His therapists had great fun with him. One told me that she enjoyed working with him because he always left her with a smile on her face from something he said or did.
We found out how much Peter meant to his fans and friends and we were overwhelmed. Personally I believe more in the power of prayer than I ever believed before. The good energy was palatable. And we also found out that we had friends in corners that we never knew about.
I will not sugar coat it. It has been very hard this year. A lot happened that wasn’t too much fun but we got through it. I have learned more about insurance than I ever care know and the system is so broken. And we did learn that no matter what you can prove, some can be gun shy about what they think they perceive as weakness.
But we are still standing and we got here with the help of all of you. We discovered things about ourselves that have made us stronger. We got through this year and came out all right on the other end.
I am grateful that we are where we are considering where we were a year ago.
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