It’s 03:51 in Dublin and it feels like it. Tired but not giving up, never.

Today, instead of being at a trial, we met one of the people who saw the accident. We met in a café just outside of Boston. She told us what she remembered of the accident; we told her how Pádraig was doing. She said she was thinking of and praying for Pádraig often.

In the morning, we visited one of the world’s best rehabilitation facilities, the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. We had only learned about this facility after we had arrived here, so we went there without an appointment. It was quite impressive and while we did not meet many of the people responsible for severe brain injuries, we got many contact names and their details and met the head of ‘physical therapy’. We will keep working on these contacts when we are back home. – What impressed me was their promise to “never give up” on anyone. Never.

We also had another long meeting with our attorney. Coming from Europe, it is hard to understand how issues like Pádraig’s devastating accident are dealt with in the US. Starting with the fact that insurance policies are capped at an amount that is utterly inadequate for accidents and resulting injuries as serious as Pádraig’s. The insurance available to cover the damage is a tiny fraction of what Padraig has needed and will need to cover his care. Add to that the uncertainties of a trial and you are moving in a space I personally find so hard to deal with: the need to be pragmatic and to accept that there are severe limitations to what is available is hard to accept because it is not necessarily in tune with what I would see as fair and just.

Tomorrow morning, we’ll be going out to Cape Cod. We have an appointment with the Police in Brewster and are trying to set another meeting up with the town council. The driver of the van that hit Pádraig will not be available for a meeting, unfortunately.

Not sure how tomorrow will turn out. We’ll see.