Labor day- everyone is home

It's labor day, so everyone is home. This makes Bree very happy. And of course, Allie and Lindsey are happy that they don't have to go to school. Linds is still adjusting to going to school, there are times she does not want to leave. Her teachers say she does a pretty good job of staying focused in class. Her tutors are miracle workers, I tell you. And Bree and Allie are huge helps, too.
Bree had a horrible nightmare last night, again. And once again when she woke up screaming and crying from it our dogs were taking a fit. She was convinced that her "bad people", the ones who hurt her were out there to hurt her again, to steal her away from us. She was so scared she wouldn't even let Rick go check. So we all just held her and tried to reassure her until she finally fell asleep again. She is working through other issues in therapy, but hopefully her counselor can help her, hopefully we can help her. I hate to see her so scared and hurting. It breaks my heart.
On the seizure front, she isn't having quite as many but she is still having them daily and through the night so I'm pretty sure the doctor will increase her dosage. Our scale says she has gained one pound!!! So yay for that. I hope this med is going to let her be seizure free but at this point we'll take her having just 2 or 3 a day. Anything to give her a better quality of life because hopefully once her seizures are reduced, or better yet, gone - the physical and occupational therapy will help her recover from her brain injury. She had a real hard time the other day, mixing up words like "here" and "there". The worse part is her trying to remember words like "Fork" and "Spoon" and other objects. She knows what she wants, she knows what they are and what they are used for, but she can't think of the word. It's hard to see her go through that as a mom. She looks so sad and heartbroken when it happens.
Tomorrow we leave for Augusta, driving down so that she can rest and we can maybe explore the town a little. Then Wednesday we see the doctors for her test results from the MRI, I have to keep the poor girl up all night so she can have an EEG on Thursday. Then I guess we will wait another week or so for those results. That's the hardest part - the waiting.