Such wonderful news. Can you find out the name of the hotel? Maybe it is a chain I have some points with.
Sheryl Sent from my iPhone. On Sep 4, 2013, at 3:44 PM, "Emily McGowan" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
