27th of May

5.18pm Tuesday afternoon. Jaana has caught a cold and has a bit of a soar throat. Saying that, she is still chipping away at her rehab sessions. As you some times with more intensity than other times, but speech therapy is a suffering a bit with the cold. On Sunday Jaana and I will fly to Miami for at least 3 days. We will do some test to try to confirm the cause of the stroke as a dissection of the blood vessel. If this can be done and confirmed, I am advised that we could stop with the warfarin. This would have many advantages as danger if she would have to have an operation for any other reason and less oxygen in her blood among others.
Ludwig's arm is healing, but he is now finding it very boring and hard to sit still. I am not to sure if it will not take a bit longer because of this. He wants to be in the pool and do all the other things Totte and Camille is doing. We will see.

22nd of May

11.33am Thursday afternoon. Jaana has pulled back and is now participating very willingly again in all rehabilitation exercises. Progress is still slow but I would like for the first time (with Jaana's approval) post this picture to all of you. Jaana is for the first time standing on her own more or less. The picture is from a couple of days back and the occupational therapist only holding Jaanas hands for comfort and not support. Jaana did not allow the picture to be taken from the front, but one can easily see her grin of pleasure and excitement.

17th of May

7.48am Saturday morning. Jaana is doing better this week. Yesterday she was in the pool with the therapists, which she really seemed to enjoy, We will try for her to do swimming exercises at least twice a week.
Otherwise, Ludwig broke his arm, close to the wrist, yesterday on the ATV. We went to get the arm xrayed and hw will have to wear a cast to 6-8 weeks. Luckily, the have both been listening to my preaching about wearing a helmet, which got seriously bashed up as well. I think this taught them a valued lesson.
Camille have been suffering from cough and runny nose but is a good mood as well. Next week the start school again and will attend the same until the first week in July.

15th of May

5.38pm Thursday afternoon. The last week Jaana has been a bit fed up with the whole rehabilitation thing. That is easy to understand, as she has done so nonstop since the end of September last year. We decided to give her a few days off (Friday and Monday) and she has since then performed a bit better. She is getting noticeably frustrated with the slow progress. She can do more things than she performs, as it is more a lack of initiative then skills. If one ask her to do something within her capabilities, she does the same, but not unprompted. We are all scratching out heads why this is, but it might very well be time for her to talk to a professional psychotherapist. We are trying to find one which is used to handle patients with limited communication skills. Otherwise, she is actually doing ok. I am still in contact with the doctors from Singapore to get feedback from them as well as the specialist in Miami (where the trip is now being organized for the first weke in June).
Kids are find. They have had the week off (mid term break) and today we went ot the Concorde museum at the airport. Camille is a bit under the weather, so after this she wanted to go home, while I took the kids to the beach so they could buggie board (surfing on the stomach with a foam board).
I have also have had some time to golf, do some business stuff etc so there is everyone is doing ok. We have some good friends from Australia coming in next week so that should be fun as well.

7th of May

4.48pm Wednesday evening. Today Jaana has been very tired and did not want to participate at all. The therapist had to cancel a few sessions and I carried Jaana upstairs so she could have a rest for the day. She has had runny nose for 2 days, so anticipate that she has a bit of a cold. Well, none of us really feel like doing too much when we feel a bit under the weather (sunny, humid and 30dgs).
Otherwise, Jaana is in a rather ok mood. She has her moments when tears are flowing, but not too excessive.
The kids have half term break next week (a lot of breaks...) so we will have to get a few things to do. After that they stay in school until the 4th of July, when the summer break starts until early September.
We have decided to remain in Barbados for the summer. It is the best for Jaana to get some more rehab in. The kids will stay as she really does not feel happy when they are not around.

2nd of May

6.39pm Friday evening. Not too much to report from the past week other than that Jaana is doing all ok. I think she has a tail end of a mild cold, as she has a bit of a runny nose. Exercise wise, all therapist have expressed satisfaction of her performance this week (as you all know by now, it is not a straight line). On Wednesday, Jaana came with me to school to pick up the children. It is a rather bumpy ride at times, and certainly put a bit of strain on her. She managed fine though through out the 1h we were in the car.
After speaking to the doctor in Miami, we have not been able to coordinate a time before June for Jaana to do the extra investigations. This is due to his busy schedule and the fact I want him to be around for all the duration of the tests and add on treatments. As there is absolutly no hurry with this, it is no problem to wait until the beginning of June.
Kids are fine. I bought 5 sheep to cut down the grass, fertilize the ground and later provide with some good meat. The gardener and I are built a shed for them to protect them from the sun and the monkeys. I trust that we will in a year or so have around 10 or them as I got 2 male and 3 female. Next on the agenda when we have build a fence around the fruit tree field (currently without fruit trees!), we might get some hens and chickens as well. Parmi said she can "prepare" them so I will let her lead the way later...