On the road......again!

9:55pm

After 13 months, Taylor is back to driving. Well....sort of.

About a week ago, I was bringing him home from a friend's house and he said "Can I drive?" This was the first time he has expressed any interest. In fact, I had offered it to him before but he said he wasn't ready.

So, he hopped in the driver seat, got everything adjusted and said "I may freakout and not be able to do this". I told him if he got uncomfortable, it was no big deal. But, he didn't. In fact, he drove better and safer than probably anybody in the county at that time.

Since then, we have been driving every day. He's driving day, night and in a rain storm. He is very conscious about having no hearing in his left hear, and doesn't like people talking or the radio on when he's driving since he knows that having limited hearing is something he needs to be very aware of.

He said he's no where ready to drive alone, although you wouldn't know it by riding with him. But, there is NO rush. He is taking things slowly, so when he's really ready to go solo he'll let us know.

Today we made a dry run to Gainesville. We had an appointment to schedule his surgery this summer, but the appointment was changed to yesterday morning - the problem is no one bothered to tell us. He goes to class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so we wouldn't have made it for yesterday anyway. We'll be going back in the next couple of weeks to get it set up - probably the last week of June.