Thursday, 6 August 2009

Larissa and progress

Tomorrow I am off north to see Larissa for the weekend. It is pretty exciting but there are some nerves. I am hoping she still recognises me and also that Claire and Katya will have a good weekend.

We have had an interesting week. Some downs but a lot of ups. A bit of normality is returning to life and we are starting to get a bit of a pattern to life again after 4 pretty rough months.

We have got a very very experienced (37 years of work, Masters, etc) faith-based therapist involved to help Claire. She is very expensive but the best people in the profession could recommend. This has caused a bit of a stink with Material Mental Health who seem to struggle to deal with an outside therapist (interesting there appear not to be any established protocols for this situation which I would have thought was fairly normal. Lots of patients make use of private services in conjunction with DHB services every day... odd!!!). Claire feels these sessions are very useful and I am hopeful they will provide the catalyst to the change that is needed to get Claire well again.

Well... lots of photos of Larissa will come over the next few days!!!

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