Angela's Blog

Hey there.

It's been a good day! Had my driving assessment today. Got a little worried about it - mostly just nervous. The man showed up and I did one neuropsych-type test with him. I think I did pretty well. Only got a few answers wrong. It was a weird visual, spatial test. One part of it you had to look at these pictures and there were similar ones below with holes missing. You had to be able to tell which one was exactly the same if the holes were filled in. And there was another part where there were four pictures and three were exactly the same but rotated and the other was exactly the same picture only the mirror image. You had to choose the mirror image. Whoo - talk about enough to wear your brain out. Then we did the driving part of the assessment and we took our car. Glad I've been practicing a little with Josh. I was pretty comfortable. We started out just on the neighborhood streets and worked our way up to arterial roads. Then the instructor told me to get on the West Seattle Bridge! I've not driven above 35mph yet so that was all new. Then once we were on the bridge I was about to ask where on 1st Ave S he wanted me to get off and he actually said, "Get on I-5 North." Holy you-know-what! I DID IT! I drove on the freeway! And I went all the way down to Olive and got off the freeway just to get back on going south! So back home we went. And then, the best part, once I was home and parked (not a small victory) we went back in the house and guess what the instructor told me?!?! He said I don't need any adaptive equipment for my car AND he said I don't need any lessons to improve my driving! Freakin' Sweet! He said I'm okay to drive! He's going to write a report that talks about his assessment of my driving skills and send it to me by the end of the week. I was freaked this whole driving thing was going to be a big pain in the butt. I was afraid that the assessment would be followed by seemingly endless lessons. But NO! All I need is this guy's report, a signature from my doctor that it's to officially make me okay to drive. The DMV might still want me to re-take the driving test but now I'm not scared even if I have to.

And Josh let me take the car solo to the bank today. Big step! In the desired direction! And I had to go to the bank because I got my Meow his birthday present today. Awesome! And we just pretended that today was his birthday so he got his treat today and he really liked it. Oh yeah, I'm the best wifey ever!

Really looking forward to our little Spo-Compton get away this weekend. Can't wait!

That's my big news. Talk at y'all later.

Ang