Wednesday was the 6-month anniversary of Craig's accident. He had quite the schedule this week, probably the busiest he has been since coming home from the hospital. It was testing week at school, all students had to take the competency tests that are required for graduation. There are three separate tests, english, math, and reading. We decided to have Craig go ahead and take these, for the experience and a way to gauge progress later on. He felt like he did OK on the english and reading, not so good on the math. We should get the results in a couple of weeks. On Wednesday, Craig beat his speech therapist in the Sudoku challenge! Working with the doctor's, we are continuing to step down on the medications, eliminating one of them (symmetrel) altogether. This was one of the first medications he was put on after waking up. The eye doctor agreed to go ahead with a prescription for glasses to help in the short term, even though his eyes will most likely continue to change. We felt that it was worth the cost to help him see, even if we have to change lenses later on. If the glasses really help, we will probably look into disposable contacts for him. The MRI results also came back this week. It showed scarring in the areas impacted by the accident, mainly the left frontal lobe. This explains why his right side has lagged behind in recovery, as the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. The scarring in this area is pretty extensive, and the doctor's commented on the fact that his recovery rate is impressive when taking this into account. Aside from this, there was nothing else really unusual in the scan. Based on information I have found, the left frontal lobe controls emotion and impulse, which would also explain a lot of the behavioral issues that we are observing. The goods news is that since the right lobe is undamaged, it should begin to pick up some of those functions (the worst case scenario is when both frontal lobes are damaged). There was also no indication of any additional bleeding or further damage since the accident. Although it does not change anything, seeing the MRI report was a little sobering, and again makes us realize how fortunate we are.