>From her mother:
Mallory moved from TIRR Rehab Hospital to Touchstone Neurorecovery Center in Conroe Texas on Friday. It is located at 9297 Wahrenberger Rd. Conroe, TX 77304. It is out in the country on a 26 acre lot. The place has different houses for the people at different levels of brain damage. Mallory is currently in Churchill but will probably be moved to Cornerstone to have more independent living. They will make them plan their own meals and plan the ingredients needed. This ought to be a first for Mal. The place was beautiful and will be again but they are doing construction now, so a lot of the pretty places are torn up. We like it though since it is more like home. We (Steve, Caleb and I) walked out of the building the other day and heard bugs. It hit me that I hadn't heard that roar of bugs at nighttime in 7 weeks. Apparently, Houston has no bugs. It also smelled like camping because the place has a lot of pine trees. The ride out there is great, no real traffic. I am staying a hotel that gives a discount for Touchstone. It is too far to commute from Mallory's apartment. When we leave here, we can bring Mal home to Avoyelles Parish for a couple of weeks before she needs to see her neurologist in Houston. We are going to love that. If she is OK this week, I am going to go home during the week next week to get everything clean and ready for her to come home. You can't visit her until 4 p.m. and then until 9 but I still like to get home at least shortly after dark, so I can't see her like I could in TIRR. I am actually more worried about me leaving her. I have seen her every day for what will be 8 weeks and been so protective of her, I am going to be the one having problems leaving her. It was rough for her making the move to a new place but she is doing OK with it now. She wants to get out as soon as possible but understands she needs to get everything she can out of her stay here. The physical is going very well, the cognitive issues need improving. Time and therapy will help. We found out before leaving TIRR she has a vision problem, but we also need the swelling to go down before any correction is made to her glasses. We stopped at her apartment on the way from Houston to here to get more clothes. She got to see all the wonderful gifts, cards, and other items that people had given her and she just cried she was so touched. She couldn't believe how nice people have been to her. She was so appreciative of everything that people have done for her. It really helped her emotionally making the move to a new place. We had to bring things home to her apartment because there was no room in some of her rooms and we didn't want to lose anything. We had told her and shown the list we were keeping but with her short term memory loss, she didn't remember plus it is so different actually seeing things. All of you have been wonderful and you are really helping Mallory through this emotional part of the recovery. And you have helped me so much. Knowing people cared so much gave me strength to keep on learning lots of new things. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
