update 2-26-11

I hate doing posts like this So we'll get it over quickly.

Things are about the same. We are doing about as good as can be expected with all the unknowns about the future that accompany things like this. Thanks for your continued love, prayers , and support.

update 2-19-11

Well, It has been a rough week. We had thought that Katrina was doing well at work, but I guess she has still been struggling with math instruction. It's not that she can't do the math because she can. It's just that the way she has been teaching the students isn't working. She's going to observe another how another teacher teaches math. She's also going to a training next week that should give her some math lesson ideas. Additionally, they are trying to get her mentor similar to a first year teacher so that she can kind of teacher re-hab.

She loves teaching so much and it's hard to see her struggle with this after she has made so much progress. I just hope that she continues to progress.

Friday Update 2-11-11

The MRI went good. No real changes, thank goodness. She did however lose even more weight. She's down to 95.5 lbs.

Friday Update 2-4-11

Although she doesn't officially start back on track until Monday she is back to work again today. Track change Friday is almost always faculty meeting in the morning. Then there was some sort of tutor meeting. She was debating whether to just spend the whole day there getting ready or not.

I don't think that people realize just how much time teachers put in that they don't get paid for. She has been off track for three weeks. Even so, just about every day she put in two or three hours, grading papers, planning lessons, and analyzing where students are struggling so she can help them overcome. Don't go thinking this is something new. It's always been this way, and I know from working in a school that it's not just her.

We have an MRI and follow up coming up; so look for that update next week.