"I know." She does know. But that doesn't make it any less frustrating to think you've made progress and then have it snatched away from you again. "I just ... feel like one of my patients back home."

The ones who feel like they're never going to make over the hurdles that their brain has set in front of them, one way or the other.

"It's weird being on the other side of the couch. So to speak."