Confusion

 When you are building your life back together in blocks of time, the sequence could be off some on any given day. You have kids. You don't have kids. You're young enough to have to ask your dad for an answer. You're an engineer spouting F2 this and connection box that. Even if the smartest of us only use less than 10% of their brain... ever... what is happening in the other 90 some percent? Maybe every memory is really all in there, to be reassembled in the proper time frame. From the 1st time you tried S'mores, to the first time you ever heard your parents argue. Memories that seem to disappear into the grey cosmos. But, they didn't.

And, like a giant box of Legos, it's all there to build something fantastic. Foundation first. Put together... Take a part .. Add this... Subtract that.

It's an amazing process. The mental aspects. The physical. Emotional. The core of who you are is still there. Jim is still polite. He covers his mouth automatically when he coughs. He says thank you. He is quippy. He is fidgety. He's impatient. He gets overwhelmed and signs off or plays possum. He's warm.

Yesterday, his daughter was able to spend some time with him. So I got a good report that in therapy he threw a ball, went outside in the wheelchair, talked a lot, and breathed room air again. He even moved his right leg forward as if to take a step. Whether these will be memories that get stored or remembered, he did them. And, we will remember them.

He may be confused as to what is going on... Who he is today... Who someone else is... But I see him knitting his story back together. Take your time. Do it right. Amaze them all.

Mailing address:

Jim Williams 

P. O. Box 821771

N. Richland Hills , TX 76182