Update Message 1

July 10th, 2021

I would like to thank you ALL for your kind thoughts, prayers, support and well wishes. It helps out my family tremendously, and I know it helped increase the healing in Dimitri. For that, I have the utmost gratitude and appreciation. Please continue to send messages as I read them all and share them with Dimitri.

I continue to reach out to my colleges for advice on how I can best help Dimitri, and this is a TEAM effort. I am most grateful for my U of S education, professors and mentors who have drilled into my head, so it’s automatic on what to do. I reached back 25 years and remembered my time in the practical classroom in neuro. I was fortunate to have placements in ICU, spinal cord and brain injury wards as a student in Saskatchewan and Alberta. This, and my post-graduate training, have all rolled together and become autopilot, which has been a blessing as I can be of service.

Between Dimitri’s work and personal phone and mine, I can spend 1-3 hours a day copying and pasting messages. I also still run my clinic that has "must do’s" that I cannot delegate. We are still just getting settled into our new clinic as we moved at the end of April. I no longer have the time or energy for daily texting/emails as Dimitri and our family are my priority. I am dealing with numerous tradespeople for repairs, modifications and looking for more suitable housing options for our family. I am maxed out on these tasks, thus thought this way of sharing progress may simplify my life. It may be a bit impersonal, but it still shares the miracles happening every day, which we are profoundly grateful for.

May I kindly request, that these pictures are viewed, not shared, or distributed as it’s a very personal part of our lives.