Better and better all the time

The last few weeks have been great! I would go so far as to say Will's best weeks yet! Like I've said in earlier posts it is difficult to pin point Will's deficits right now because there are less and less of them all the time. His memory is reaching pre-stroke levels. He even remembers names (which he could not do a month ago).

Since we're too lesser detectable levels I hope to effectively communicate the improvements. Executive functioning. If you have followed this blog long enough you have read quite a bit about this topic. One of the highest levels of functioning that we have is the executive functioning... It does not fully develop until we are around 25 years old. That is why you'd have to constantly tell a teen to clean their room-- that functioning is not quite there yet. Well I have to admit I have felt very much like Will's mother at times-Will are you doing this, Will can you do this, etc. You'll be happy to know that I am less and less "motherly" all the time. I'll name some specific things he has done in the last couple weeks without my direct prompting. Will worked in my parents yard for hours on end getting it ready for my sister's wedding, he also helped move his sister up to her fiances home in time for her wedding this past Friday. Thursday he emptied out our storage closets to prepare to build shelves in there this next week. The past two weeks has applied for about 15 jobs, and he bought two new, very expensive ;) internal medicine books and has studied them frequently. He continues to write in his journal and read his scriptures everyday, again without prompting.

I hope Will's initiative the past few weeks will continue-- in the meantime we are calling June the month of "Detail." As a doctor you have to be very into detail so we're working on bringing this up to par. Will is being tasked each week with things that take a lot of planning and detail-- this week is building shelves in our storage unit on our balcony, he has never done this before but I'm sure he'll do fine. We'll post pictures of Will's projects in the coming weeks.

Last but not least Will's stamina is awesome-- we ran a sprint triathlon last week and Will came in a little after me, I'm a little better swimmer because of practice, else he would have beat me for sure. Will continues to be alert. He generally has around eight hours of sleep a night and only takes a couple of naps a week.

Above I've posted a picture from the triathlon and one from his sister's reception. We're doing great. I love Will with all of my heart. He is such a good man. One of Heavenly Father's choice sons. Keep reading and following the blog. We love your support and prayers.