Short Stories in Speech : )

I had more testing in speech therapy this week. In one of the tests there were three pictures. You had to create a story using them.
Picture 1 had people, animal & spaceships. It look hot and very dry.
Picture 2 was in space with the spaceships flying away from Earth.
Picture 3 the people, animals & spaceships were on another planet. There were trees and people looked like they were farming.

So I wrote something to this effect~

The Earth was very hot and dry. It hadn't rained in a year. NASA had finally made a spaceship the could safely transport people to Mars. So we gathered the animals, plants and seeds that we would need when we got there. We loaded the animals in their spaceship. We got in ours and took off. Just when we were out of the atmosphere the Earth exploded.
We travelled ten hours to Mars. As we were about to land we noticed lush, green fields and water below. We got the animals safely out and started planting our crops. We all noticed that we could breathe better than we had been able to in a long time. We knew life would be happy on Mars!

I don't know what it will tell them about me, but it was fun! : )

I had my last evaluation test in speech therapy today. Now they are going to go over everything to see what they can do to help me. The test I had today was one that they gave me in rehab right after my stroke. For one of the questions I had to name as many states as I could in one minute. I remembered it from the test in rehab. The first time I think I could only think of about 12 states. Today I started naming them by thinking of the 50 Nifty song. So when I was done the speech therapist was impressed at how many I named and that they was in alfabetical order. I thought it was funny. They also made me type at the computer so they could see what type of mistakes I'm making. The only rule was I couldn't use the backspace key. It was pretty bad. I guess we'll see on Thursday what they have planned for me! :)

We braved the weather and went to see Dr. Edgely today. It was good. He said my recovery is going really well and that my prognosis is good. Yay! : )

HI-HO HI-HO is back to work I go!

Hi everybody~
I started back at work this week. It's so fun. I get to work one on one with a little second grader teaching him how to read. I also have 2 little first grader to work with. I'm going to get to moniter the kindergarteners. I'm excited to be back.
Mindy : )

Typos, typos everywhere!

Hi~
My sister said to leave my typos in so here goes> See a typo already! : ) Dr. Edgley is very nice. I bet he was a good student body president. Can I just tell you speech thearapy is expensive. I spend todat trying ti find about speech therapy. The closest speech theapist my insurance will cover is in Brigham City. I tried Logan Regoional but there is no way I could get financial assistance. So I contacted the speeech clinic at USU to see what they cam do, but they are on break until January. So I guess I'll Just wait until then. I hope my tryping gets better soon! : )
Mindy

Update

Hi Everyone~
I just wanted to give you all an update. I had a follw up appointment with Dr. Edgley the doctor that treated me in rehab. It was pretty interesting. I found out I have Broca's Aphasia. It affects the part of your brain that has to do with speech, reading, writing and numbers. I will ave to have speech therapy for awhile. Hopefully we will get things connectig in my brain soon.

*My family will enjoy seeing my writing. I wrote this out before I typed it and I still had some typos! : )

I will keep the updates coming and I hope you all have a Merry Christmas.
Love, Mindy

I'm home!

Hi everybody!
I'm home. I'm just taking easy for a while. Thank you for your thoughts and concern. They mean a lot to me.
Love, Mindy