Dear family and friends,
Grayson spent the afternoon and evening with a residential assistant (RA) that he hasn't worked with often. The RA felt it prudent to just spend time with Grayson, talking to him as a friend. This was a good strategy.
They hung out together all afternoon. They watched a pickup football game at the park, played ping pong in the rec center and did laundry. When Grayson was cued that it was time to take out the trash, the RA stood back and let Grayson take the lead. Grayson grabbed the trash bag and headed across the complex to the trash bin, deposited the trash and headed back with the RA following behind. The repetitious nature of these daily routines is building memory pathways that are essential to the healing brain. It is obviously working.
Grayson was allowed to order dinner in (chicken fajitas) and according to the RA he "ate like a champ". His increased appetite is a good thing.
The RA discovered that Grayson likes comics and talked to him about who he likes better – Superman or Batman. Grayson's responses were in the form of sentences (not just one word) though his words were rushed and hard to understand. The RA gently asked Grayson to slow down and he was able to communicate that Superman was "amazing" and that Batman was "smart".
The RA summed up Grayson's evening saying that he spent a fair amount of time laughing over the book he was reading and generally "going with the flow".
What a very long way we have come since the middle of November.
Peace,
Regina
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