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NEED YOUR PRAYERS FOR TRINA, FOR US…
It has been a TRYING couple of months planning to bring Trina home. 1) Trina looks great and yet continues to pull back from progress. She barely wants to eat by mouth, so we have had to increase her tube feeding to almost 100% of her calories as she was losing weight and is already…
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A LOT TO LEARN
It has been an unbelievable learning curve planning to bring Trina home. I really hate to make this observation, but it seems like the employees of the various government programs needed to make it happen are disconnected, especially when you add to the mix moving from one county to another. I have been running in…
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HUGE STEPS AHEAD …
First … Great News! Trina is once again moving forward. She is eating well (yet still has feeding tube) and Steve has been able to get her to walk again with his lead (just moving slower this time, less stimulation to be safe). Every day we continue to have hope, but it still is hard…
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PATIENCE REQUIRED
We have heard the doctors talk about brain injury patients reaching a “plateau,” but had not personally experienced this until a couple weeks ago with Trina. I reported already that we thought it was due to over stimulation when all the family visited, but then the last week she also had the flu, too. Today,…
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PLEASE PRAY …
It has now been 9, almost 10 days since Trina pulled back. We learned in the last couple of days that she has a bad cold. A chest x-ray was done tonight as we were afraid it could be pneumonia. Thank goodness the report came in negative! However, she is miserable. It hurts to see…
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2 STEPS FORWARD, 3 BACK (PRAY !!!)
Many of you recently watched the awesome video of Trina standing and taking a few steps on her own (with Steve by her for close protection). We now realize that on that day she was over stimulated. We had a lot of family visiting and it was all just too much for her. So, Trina…
Trina Leigh 