Hello everyone,
We wanted to give you an update and to thank our wonderful community for all the incredible support so far. John is deeply grateful for all the help and love he and his girls have received since the accident.
Paula’s recovery is likely to be a slow and challenging journey, but she has already made some small and pleasing progress. She can move around and feed and dress herself, and she can even have a good conversation sometimes. At the same time, she is still very confused and sometimes struggles to remember close friends and the simple details of her life. Paula can also sometimes get agitated and unhappy, and her conversations are sometimes very scrambled and disconnected. Hopefully, with ongoing specialist help, this will continue to improve as time passes.
Paula has now been moved into a specialist Acquired Brain Injury rehabilitation facility in Waitākere. This is a positive move, because it means she gets the specialist care and rehabilitation she needs.
While Paula’s progress is pleasing, we are still at an early stage and at the moment it appears likely she will be in rehabilitative care for some months. There is also no way to know how much of her long and short term memory and cognitive function will return, or what other long term impacts there might be. We all know Paula’s courage and fighting spirit, so we’re sure she’ll work hard on her recovery. She enjoys having visitors, so we are encouraging her friends to visit her when they can.
