My thoughts on the everydayness of life

Nearly six months have passed, we are amazed at God's goodness. John is back at work full time. John still has times when his language seems to go, when he's tired or stressed. His personality has changed, he has become much more emotional, but I suppose that's because the right side of his brain is now dominant. John is hoping to preach for the first time at the prayer meeting this coming Thursday and we would value your prayers for this. This is a big thing for John because John's language can go when he is stessed. Yet we know the Lord hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He also gave a small talk at Pastor's 20th anniversary service last Saturday. It was amazing because John's language had been not so good all day, yet the little talk was clear and John disn't halt at all. Here is a photo of John on Saturday.

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John started with his first full days at work this week, he is doing 1 full day, 1 , 1/2 day and a day off. He seems to be coping well and we are delighted with his progress. He is coping with the complex 30 year plan and is able to write reports. We are thankful to all who have prayed and for the Lord who has brought John through this. This has been a tough 4 months , yet we wouldn't be without this experience. There are still some difficulties, yet they are small in comparison to where John was after the stroke.

We were visited today by someone from the "Young brain injury unit" today. She went through everything with John, his history, broken back, arthritis, diabetes, neuropothy, angina, cardiac arrest and finally the stroke. Apart from being staggered that John was in work for 3 days for five hours she felt he still has a lot of problems. She is going to refer John to a Psychologist to work out his neurological function and difficulties and also to a neurologist to have the level of damage assessed. I think poor John felt a little down after the visit, his comment was, I'm obviously not doing as well as I thought." She seemed amazed that these things hadn't been done before.

John had to order some tracts and Bibles from the TBS this morning, he finds telephones really difficult, I wrote out what he needed and went through it with him before he ordered. Yet he nearly ordered 800 sets of 800 tracts, there was also a mix up with accounts and poor John was left feeling fraustrated and stupid. He also had to phone the bank for a new Church account cheque book, it was one of these automated services, he found it very hard to process and after he managed to get him through to an advisor he was put through to a second advisor who told him the account didn't have online banking so he had to go into a branch to order a cheque book. I am beginning to realise that the way most companies operate with these automated call centres make it very difficult for someone with a language disorder to access the services. How many elderly people live alone and end up in a state trying to phone about a bill and just can't navigate the call system. Why can't we telephon...