By Lisa Ansay — Oct 15, 2012 11:25am Taylor loves his walks around the neighborhood. Here, he is joined by his long-time friend, and fellow moto-rider, Destiny, from Payson, AZ. Taylor has been feeling much better these days. He is energetic, super-lucid, full of memories, having short periods of vision…
By Lisa Ansay — Oct 9, 2012 10:48pm Taylor received a card today with words that seemed to be hand-picked for him: God Is Holding You In His Care by Helen Steiner Rice Sometimes the things that seem the worst turn out to be the best, and this is just…
By Ron Stark — Oct 9, 2012 3:40pm Yesterday afternoon Taylor and I loaded up his pickup truck and headed up to Flagstaff for some clean fall air. He was a little anxious about leaving the apartment at first but the closer to we got to Flag the more excited…
By Lisa Ansay — Oct 4, 2012 12:17am Taylor spent the night in Barrow Neuro ICU last night. He has had awesome days, and some confused days this week, and the confused days even alarmed Taylor himself. He had a very hard time remembering things, and for the past two…
By Lisa Ansay — Oct 2, 2012 11:20pm I just got off the phone with Lisa, and Taylor has been admitted back into the hospital thru the ER, into the neuro ICU unit. Taylor has been very quiet over the last 3 days with brief moments of “Taylorness!” Taylor was…
By Lisa Ansay — Sep 30, 2012 8:46am Taylor’s days are structured in layers. Medications and meals make up the primary layer. Outpatient physician visits are the second layer. PT, OT and ST squeeze into what remains. Any leftover time includes walks through the neighborhood, non-PT trips to the gym,…
By Lisa Ansay — Sep 22, 2012 12:33pm Taylor is booked solid these days with outpatient physician appointments, PT, OT, ST and other fun stuff. Last night, Taylor did an extra bit of time on the exercise bike. The included photo is the work-out room for the condo we’re renting during outpatient activities here in Phoenix. The…
By Lisa Ansay — Sep 14, 2012 1:00pm The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest…. ~William Osler Nurses are…compassionate, patient, loving, skilled, savvy, multi-tasking superstars, etc. “Angels in comfortable shoes,” someone once said, and I agree. There is…
By Lisa Ansay — Sep 12, 2012 11:12pm Taylor is DONE with the hospital beds, bad PA speakers, screaming neighbors and gowns that tie behind you somewhere. He has officially relocated to the Biltmore Condo of Healing and Therapy a.k.a. “home”. Home for now… The first thing he did, was…
By Lisa Ansay — Sep 11, 2012 9:41am Generally, whether it’s Ron or me starting the day with Taylor, things go about the same each day. About 6am, Taylor is ready to either be tucked in for another hour or so, or his arms are behind his head, knees up,…
