By Lisa Ansay —
Taylor in Flagstaff
Sitting here at the small table with Taylor, at the Briles Therapy House, and feeling so very blessed to have these amazing people in my life!!
Taylor amazes me sometimes minute by minute… he interacts and responds and laughs at Lisa and I chatting like we are silly school girls.
His attitude is amazingly positive as he does his morning workouts which include dancing to whatever music suits his mood to treadmill time to pool time. Don’t be fooled,though, pool time is absolutely not all play. He gets to chill out and float after earning it by carrying Lisa the length of the pool or jumping up out of the water or running…
I know people think so very much time has passed and shouldn’t he be 100 percent already? Part of that is our super fast paced lives and the skew of TV where we watch weeks and months pass in half an hour, so our perception of healing time is messed up to start with. But also consider that with brain injury the recovery time is stretched out. Anyone who has done physical therapy knows it can hurt and take a while, just imagine that multiplied, or even squared.
Taylor is amazing in his drive to continue to improve, regardless of what is thrown at him next! When I think that from the beginning we were told it could take months for him to even move at all, and he did that in hours… to his idea of putting a climbing rope leading from his bedside to his bathroom…to deciding to tackle a sustained incline on the treadmill, I feel so proud to know him.
His love of life is inspiring, his positive attitude infectious, and his smile continues to light up anyroom he is in. Although he will say angels guard his path and brighten his journey, I think HE is one of those people that is an angel in disguise here among us.
Thank you, God, for preserving this particular special young man, and for blessing our lives through his!
