We're home, however

We moved back into our home two weeks ago. We are elated to be back! We worked so hard to get to this point. Even if our stuff is still in boxes and isn't quite in it's place it's (mostly) under one roof and back in our home. There's no other feeling of relief quite like it.....However we have a set back going on. We went to a minor league baseball game last weekend with N's boy scout troop. After the game there were fireworks and the scouts and their families got to camp out on the baseball field. It's such a neat thing for the kids to do. Daddy, N and L talked me into camping out with them. The stuff I remember was really fun, but things went south late in the night when I woke up with terrible stomach pain. I woke D up and I told him we needed to go to the ER. We were on our way out of the tent to head that way and I passed out. I stood up to walk and I kept on going and landed flat on my back. I really shook my melon. After extensive testing and a stay at the hospital it was determined that my head is full of nice healthy brains, but I sustained a severe concussion from my fall.

The first few days of being home were really tricky. I couldn't handle any noise, light, temperature or weather change. My appetite was less and I certainly couldn't do any chores or play with the boys. My head and neck were both very tender but I was also nauseous, dizzy, weak, fatigued and slow. Slow to walk,  think,  talk, comprehend. Just plain slow. I still feel slow in conversations, but I'm catching up in all the other areas. I'm getting to the point where I can handle stimulation from about two of my five senses at a time. A friend of mine works with neuro patients and she said it very well when she said to take one sense at a time. I feel like I am getting closer to handling the normal level of noise and commotion at our house but I'm not ready to go out into public and negotiate all that noise, motion, light, driving, etc. In fact, I think I've only left the house five times in the last nine days. I usually leave the house that many times in about two days. Ha!! I'll get there, but I've gotta take it slow. 

Today marks day number nine of life with a concussion and day fifteen of being back in our house. Over all today was both icky and wonderful. I felt pretty bad in the morning but this afternoon and evening were wonderful. It felt like our first true day of true life in our house. D got his tractor out (and got it stuck in the mud), the boys played outside, we opened the kiddie car wash for the season, D and L planted flowers, I got a few boxes unpacked, D made a trip to Menards and we ate a nice dinner. I'm really learning to appreciate the littlest things that I normally take for granted. I now realize how much we do on a daily basis that our bodies can handle without us even thinking about it.

We've made it through this week with a lot of help from family and friends. We really could not have done it without you! Thanks so much!