Second year Day 91 - Thursday March 14, 2013

Today we went to Whitefish to see a different cranio sacral therapist, who had been highly recommended to us by someone who also had a brain injury.  This therapist, Sara Bonds, had a traumatic brain injury herself, when she was 10 years old.  She had real advances with her injury years later, when she saw a cranio sacral therapist and decided to become a therapist herself.  Now she is studying to be an osteopath, up at a school in B.C.  She's a second year student (already has her bachelors degree).  When she is done with the school, she will do another year, specializing in TBI. She admitted that she is no where nearly advanced as Faith, but we need someone close, so gave it a try.  So......she is definitely more experienced than anyone we've seen, other than Faith.  However, she is not nearly as advanced as Faith.  No one can come even close, so far, that we have seen.  It's just too bad that we aren't closer to Faith so that we could see her as often as needed.  Sara did show me something that I can do when the pain gets really bad in her kidney, and it works, so that was very helpful.  Sara also said that there has been so much trauma to Bridgett's body, and that is why her body is crying out for relief.  She said that's why she can't sit still for very long, and has to get up and walk.  Her body wants to more to get relief from the pain.  Makes sense.  Also, she disagreed with thinking automatically that her lungs hurt from scar tissue.  She said that when she worked on Bridgett's lungs, she herself could feel a terrible choking, a feeling of vomiting and panic of not being able to breath---much like the feeling that Bridgett MUST have had when she was vomiting.  Anyway, she said that regular work would eventually relieve this and other pain she is having.  We are looking forward to next weekend, when we leave to Utah to see Faith.  We have appointment to see her Monday thru Friday the first week and then Monday thru Saturday the second week.  In other words, almost every day that she is in Utah this trip.  I will take the girls and go down; Mark and Tyler will be at home still.