Josh Gray

Joshua continues his triumphant recovery. He endures a busy day starting with school. Kids began the school year this month in our area and so did Josh. Through a program called Home Hospital, our school district arranged for a teacher to come to the house and instruct Josh on his subjects. This has been a great idea with preparing Josh to return to school. The one-on-one attention with his teacher, Kim Devine, has been working well .The class lineup is the same subjects taught on campus and will keep him on course to graduate with his class in June 2010. Now, this kid is tough and it’s easy to understand why he is such an inspiration. His class starts at 5:30 a.m. and ends at 6:30 a.m. In that hour he covers five courses and has a few hours of homework every day. After class time, he gets a shower, dressed, packs his homework, and it’s off in the car to therapy. His therapy is with the Transitional Living Center (TLC) at Casa Colina. This program continues the aggressive rehabilitation methods used in the in-patient program, just for more hours a day. Now he’s in therapy six hours a day working on all three disciplines, Physical, Occupational, and Speech therapies. Two hours a day for each therapy is a lot, and along with school, the kid has a busy day. He’s keeping in stride with it all and with time to chat on the phone with friends.