According to reports from Louis and Sally all is going very well.
Before I left Melbourne we all went to the Epworth Rehab hospital for an appointment with a rehabilitation physician called Dr M. She was lovely.
We have been offered a 2 week admission from the 3rd to the 17th January so Helen will stay down for this. I think it will focus on physical rehabilitation so we will wait to see whether it is still worthwhile going ahead with private neuropsychology. Helen's memory/cognitive variability continues to amaze, puzzle and fascinate me. There must be some quite specific parts of her brain affected and yet she is so variable! It's very hard to make sense of it. Dr M was not overly hopeful that brain function improvement was likely or possible with rehab but I think it's worth seeing what happens - afterall she had only a short time for assessment and the only observation she made was relating to short term memory deficits which although true is not the whole picture.
I have begun the laborious process of Centrelink forms again - quite Byzantine but hopefully with a good outcome.
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