A company called Americare Home Health has been sending me a Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist 2-3 times a week for the past 2 weeks! I can actually move more parts of my body now, than ever before! I know I am a quadriplegic, but if I try real hard, I can move every part of my body (even if it's ever so slightly). I'm giving it all I've got because I can see the results and I want to get better at everything I try to do.
My BIGGEST handicap is my speech. I have been praying so hard that God will grant me the gift of better speech. I've been told that I have a good sense of humor, that I am mentally alert and creative (which is why I have become a published author of children's books) and that I have a brilliant mind, but what good is all that if I can't express my thoughts clearly enough to be understood when I speak? Or fast enough to interject my thoughts into the conversations going on around me? I am also seeing a speech therapist, but that doesn't seem to be helping me much. I am very frustrated right now, but I have the faith to believe that God will get me through this....somehow.
Do you have any other means of communicating? If you have movement in your right arm, are you able to use a computer keyboard by yourself?
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