BUILD

   

     Our older daughter's life skills program started last week and she is truly enjoying it. She finds the respectful and positive atmosphere refreshing after her high school experience and enjoys being treated like a young adult. The acronym BUILD stands for "Building Upon Individual Learning and Development". The streams of learning include: Life Skills, Employment, Transportation and Health and Wellness. With half a dozen young people in the program and a teaching ratio of 3:1, our daughter already feels comfortable with everyone and is happy to be involved. The staff are young, caring and patient women. There are trips to the library and local businesses, opportunities to practise a variety of skill sets like taking the bus or shopping out in the community and an upbeat and cheerful group of peers around her, so our daughter feels fortunate to be part of it all.
     She is now nearing eight months of freedom from seizures and anything seems possible. We are not sure whether she outgrew the seizures, the meds are now working, there is less stress in her life or our prayers have been answered. Any way you look at it we are blessed! I remember looking at other people's Facebook pages and being envious of their child's "One Year Seizure Free" status. Maybe it could happen to us!