Physically, Rowan is doing reasonably well.

He's got manual dexterity so he's feeding himself, and even following the dining etiquette regarding utensils he was taught while growing up (something I never learned for some reason). He can write, although his handwriting has changed a little. He's been drawing floor plans of our house to show the therapists and keeping a log of the exercises he's doing.

He's showering, dressing, putting on his shoes and tying his laces, walking on his own without a walker or cane or anything, and doing his physio exercises, including riding the stationary bike sometimes. Regarding walking, our longest walk has been 2.5 km with 2 lengthy breaks along the way, so he's gaining strength.

He does have a few physical issues ... physio is working on some and some may resolve over time.

However, with regard to the brain injury, he is having some difficulty with fatigue, patchy memory (short and long term), moderate aphasia, and issues mainly related to a left brain injury.

But he does quite well with orientation (he was able to give very accurate directions to where we live and his drawings of our floorplans were good), math (or is it arithmetic? I said something was $15/month and he immediate said "$180/year" ... he's done that sort of thing a few times), and date & time.




Defining "fatigue" in Rowan's world ...

It's not: "if I got a solid 8 hours of sleep for a week, I'd feel less fatigued"

It is more like: "I waited till the last weekend before Christmas to do all my Christmas shopping, and decided to hit the biggest, most packed, shopping centre in town for an all-day shopping marathon ... flocks of screaming children, rude annoying people, loud music, bright colours, walking up and down and up and down, trying to decide, stores that don't have what I want, and someone just ran into me with their shopping cart." ... that sort of fatigue. Pounding headache, meltdown fatigue.

But for him, it doesn't take much to reach that point. So he keeps activities short and takes lots of breaks. And we avoid things like crowded cafes.