Well, it finally happend. Stephen was "let go"..he 'lost' his job. Most of you know he was a youth pastor. He (we) continued to work at the church post 'e'..(almost four years now) Some things changed that is true, but we still managed to do the job..we just did it differently. The pastor decided though that he could get more people for his money....doing more if he fired Stephen. We are pretty much devastated. Trying to keep a roof over our head and not get too depressed. We continue to pray an… Continue

I actually recall waking in hospital in the midst of a cold New Zealand winter (icy, no snow) in 2005.....and again the next day when I thought it was the first, and the day after that until, maybe a month afterwards, I began to expect to awaken in hospital. I recall this having happened now but, at the time, it felt like waking after a hard night drinking and trying to recall the events of the previous evening as everyone informs you of how silly you were. Everyone still said things of the even… Continue

Hello all,

It's me Hope, guess what?
Oh, I'll tell y'all I made honors and I start inturning in Dec.
WoW! I'm doing it WOW!

I got what I call the, 'adaptation copout craptaculer' - spiel from my neurologit about 2 years ago now, almost to the day. I went into the hospital having fooled myself into believing he'd fall over himself with surprise and interest about how much I'd then improved. He did the complete and utter opposite without being directly offensive,

"Your eye astigmatizm is still all over the place" I can still hear him tell me in his thick, South African accent (the accent makes the memory clearer in my… Continue

Like anyone in recovery from encephalitis - I've had an abismal memory. Veering away from a sob story about it, while also tempted to write this as a discussion, I'll post this as a blog because it's something which came back to me while chatting with someone on the site recently, and I feel it's just wierd that this should stand out in my mind while so many other things seem to have just vanished - things which I know are important and would greatly help my sanity if recalled accurately, but wh… Continue