Dealing with Disappointment

I haven't always been good at dealing with disappointment. In fact in the past I have failed miserably at it ;) This week has continued to be a week full of disappointments. OSU won't admit us into another 4th year of medical school, they basically said the same thing Will's residency said-- that they are not equipped to "rehabilitate" someone like Will. When we took the route of trying to find a residency that would take us -- our Ohio connections (Dr. Glascow) strongly discouraged it and said she would write a letter but thought the decision would be premature.

Now I'll back up and try to answer more questions-- so Jon B. doesn't feel left out this time ;) First off we'll let you know the remaining "stroke deficits" that are keeping Will from progressing in the professional world-- He looks tired and people take this as he is not interested. He has a slower processing speed-- that accounted for doing poorly on a medical exam in Ohio. And lastly the application of the knowledge is still recovering I'm guess because he doesn't have all his memory connections back so piecing the puzzle back together without all the pieces is too much to ask. We're confident Will is still recovering we continue to see progress in theses areas, however, for now, our world is still on hold. We'll probably be living in our Bountiful Condo for the next year and taking prep classes for Step Three (if Will passes the boards before even doing the first year of residency I'm sure they'll let him back into a residency next year). Meanwhile we're looking at possible service/medical opportunities in South America and we're both looking for jobs in Utah.

To end with, this time around the disappointment has not been so devastating-- One day I said to Will "I'm not going to mess up my make up - so no crying today. " Then a few days later when Will sensed I was getting upset and he said to me-- "don't mess up your makeup." We're learning to laugh at ourselves and we're really enjoying our time together. On top of this we feel your prayers and know that the faith of family and friends is holding us up right now.

ps As for our current travel plans, we're leaving Georgia tomorrow and going to stay with a friend in Washington DC Tuesday and Wednesday then we're going to stay with some other friends in Pennsylvania Thursday and Friday then We'll be off to New York on Saturday to stay with Lizzie for a week. Then we'll head back to Ohio to have Thanksgiving with Jon B and Peter's Family.

pps the Below pictures are our travels to Georgia, Will in front of the hospital in Kentucky were he was born, our beautiful ride through Tennessee's country roads and our fun times with the Peter Clarke Family in Georgia.








You need to know there were no animals harmed in the filming of the below clip. Also if you have a weak stomach you may not want to watch this one due to the excessive amount of animal saliva seen in the clip (see the pleasant video I posted on http://willsrecovery.blogspot.com instead )-- If you're brave enough however just know none of us saw the signs that said "keep your windows rolled up halfway" until the end of the tour -- Jessica Peter and poor Bailee baby practically had buffalo, long horns, deer, and zebra right on top of their laps. On top of the animals trying to get in the car we had an animal of our own inside the car. Throughout the safari trip Logan opened the van door with a herd of animals outside of it, he also almost crawled out the window a few times and he had one of my camera lenses hanging out the car to hand to one of the animals.