#314 Tuesday 12 July

Bad night. Nomi didn't sleep till 12 ... I woke at 11 and was up till 2 ... Kaylia was up at 3 and very noisy till 6:30 ... she's still awake but quiet now .... so she may go to sleep. At least with it being school holidays, she can sleep it off.

I've been kept awake by the wrist for most of the night ... but since the medical advice is "... suck it up." ... and other views are that I'm fixated on the wrist .. I just have to try and forget that I have this aching pulsating blob on the end of my arm. The painkiller I can have doesn't do much .... the painkiller that works makes daily life non-functional!






"Thankyou for listening to my story."


Evening:
Kaylia had a review of her therapy program today ..... Kane (her current therapist) only knows Kaylia in recent times and it was very interesting to hear Darin (Kaylia's psychologist) describing her progress to Kane. We forget just how far she has come since starting down the therapy road. All the indications are that she is still improving rapidly.

Much of her therapy now revolves round prompting her to see relationships between situations so she can then apply that skill to her everyday situations ... to generalise the skill. These are the skills that we learned by observing our world .... Kaylia has great difficulty in being aware of the world outside herself .... so she can't learn to see the relationships. The idea is to teach her the basic skills .... and when she sees the basics and applies them to the rest of her world, her skills and awareness will blossom.