First off, I want to apologize to all of you who have followed Stevie's journey for going dark.  Due to pending litigation we are limited to what we can post.  BUT...litigation or no litigation...we want to share that Stevie came home today after 22 months in hospital nursing home and rehab!!!

Of course, any change is hard for Stevie because of his Aspergers but today has gone SO smoothly.  Stevie has progressed so far in the fourteen months since he finally got rehabilitation services.  We continue to wonder how much farther he would be if he had not been denied rehabilition when he was coming out of his coma.  

Stevie sent the following poem to me this morning to sum up his feelings.  I'm so proud that he can communicate his feelings so well:

This ink, it runs
This paper is stained
Tears run free as 
I'm stuck in a daze
I put this pen to paper
To write the words 
This voice can't deliver
My heart is heavy
With pain and despair
Can't breath 
I'm fighting for air
My mind is spinning 
At the speed of light 
This pain i my life
Has clouded my mind
The thoughts are deafening
Of my life you took away
But after all my 
Heartache
Someday I'll be O.K.

Of course, Stevie still can't speak (which he could do when he came out of his coma and lost) and his hands are still contracted (which he will have surgery for tomorrow at UTSW) but we'll continue to fight to move forward.  

For now, we're all SO happy and ready to eat the spaghettie and meatballs that Dad is whipping up.  Life is good!