Annie is on crutches and headed home to the Eastern Shore of Maryland via air this weekend!

She can't drive for a couple of more weeks, but her dear friends in MD are rallying round to see that her needs are met, and are as eager to have her back among them as she is eager to be back in her own home, to see her beloved cats, play music with her music friends, etc.    There is reason to think that with time, PT and diligent self-care and monitoring, she will fully recover in terms of mobility and what she can do in terms of physical activity (climb ladders to clean gutters, hike in the mountains, sit in the car and/or drive for long trips, Kite surf, etc.)

As Mom says, Mom is doing well, all things considered. Her cast is off. Her bones are knitting slowly, but they are knitting, and she is hopeful more surgery and bone grafts will not be necessary. We will know about those prospects in another 4 weeks.

Any of you who have experienced similar trauma or who have family members who have, know they still have a long road ahead of them to reach their maximum level of functioning, and also know how much it means to be approaching the place where they can function completely independently in terms of activities of daily living, even if leaping tall buildings in a single bound is still a ways off.

Optimism and acceptance are powerful allies in the human psyche.