Posts by Ernie and Ashleigh Szabo

    Here is Ashleigh in bed with her cousin’s three kids.  The kids visit often and Ashleigh loves it as you can tell by the smile on her face.  On this day the oldest, Paige, had a day off of school and got to join Evan and Natalie piled in bed with Ashleigh. Paige used…

  One of the reasons I have been slow to post lately is Ashleigh has recently had surgery to remove her gallbladder. Although it is normally a pretty routine surgery, with Ashleigh and the complications as a result of her brain injury things became more complicated.

  Ashleigh’s niece and nephew were working at their school’s festival so we picked up Ashleigh’s cousin Paige and drove up to check it out.

  We had the cutest little trick or treaters stop by. Ashleigh’s cousin Celeste and her husband Chris brought their kids – Paige (the Vampire Princess) Evan (the Dinosaur) and Natalie (the chicken or maybe duckling?).  Ashleigh is passing out the goodies.

  Ashleigh went to her ten-year high school class reunion recently and she said she had a real good time. She saw a number of friends and even saw one of the boys she used to have a crush on in high school.

We took Ashleigh to a Pulmonologist partly because of bronchial spasm attack she had and partly to see if they could suggest something that could increase her breath support when she tries to speak. He examined her and suggested she go in for a sleep study.

We found a great new harness for our gait trainer totally by accident. We went to meet a therapist for an evaluation of the Bioness products and saw this very nice harness system hanging in the therapy area. Being nosy I looked at the nametag and checked out their web site when we got home.

Ashleigh celebrated her 29th birthday this year. Here she is blowing out her candles and taking a lick of the icing. Her brother got her the new Wii Resort game which does seem pick up her more limited movements better when playing.

Two partners at the law firm who handle Ashleigh’s affairs had a fiftieth birthday this year. They decided to celebrate together and have an Oscar related party where attendees could dress up as Hollywood stars from their favorite movies or black tie.

Ashleigh’s neices and nephew come to the house almost every day and Ashleigh really enjoys it. We were taking advantage of the really mild summer weather and took the kids out to swing.