Dear Friends:
Today was a much better day. Paul seems more interested in working with the therapists. Dad also said that he is responding to him when he calls his name ... he wasn't doing that for the last week or so. The day started with ADL (activities for daily living). They work to get him to do daily hygiene things ... like washing his face and brushing his teeth. He doesn't do these things very well without lots of help yet. The therapist that does ADL is the same as OT. Dad was telling her that he felt Paul really did well after the rolling exercise they did yesterday so she is going to work some more on that on Wednesday. Speech went really well. The therapist is working to get him to chew and swallow better. She is going to try to find out some better techniques encourage him. She asked him if he wanted some ice cream. He barely nods his head for "yes" but she said that wasn't acceptable since only Dad recognizes it. She wants him to work harder on nodding his head more significantly. He was allowed to have a couple of bites of strawberry ice cream. PT went real well also. They worked to stand and walk again today. After dad got his hand open Paul initiated the movement to stand up and they helped him the rest of the way. He walked for a while and then sat for a while. Overall he was able to walk about half the distance of the therapy room. He does real well with his left foot but they have to help him a bit with the right foot still. The staff Doctor checked in today to see how Paul was doing now that the muscle relaxers have been decreased. We are now convinced that the problem was indeed the medicines! Thank goodness. The CT that was done on Sunday came back OK. Apparently Wednesday is the day that the doctor gets together with all of the therapists to analyze each patients status and progress. I would love to be a "fly on the wall" for that!! I hope they will see that he is making progress. Tabby is working hard to get the house ready. She is getting lots of help from friends and family. What a blessing that is for all of us! Hopefully we won't be bringing him home for at least the next few weeks but at least the house is in the process of being ready.
Today was a much better day. Paul seems more interested in working with the therapists. Dad also said that he is responding to him when he calls his name ... he wasn't doing that for the last week or so. The day started with ADL (activities for daily living). They work to get him to do daily hygiene things ... like washing his face and brushing his teeth. He doesn't do these things very well without lots of help yet. The therapist that does ADL is the same as OT. Dad was telling her that he felt Paul really did well after the rolling exercise they did yesterday so she is going to work some more on that on Wednesday. Speech went really well. The therapist is working to get him to chew and swallow better. She is going to try to find out some better techniques encourage him. She asked him if he wanted some ice cream. He barely nods his head for "yes" but she said that wasn't acceptable since only Dad recognizes it. She wants him to work harder on nodding his head more significantly. He was allowed to have a couple of bites of strawberry ice cream. PT went real well also. They worked to stand and walk again today. After dad got his hand open Paul initiated the movement to stand up and they helped him the rest of the way. He walked for a while and then sat for a while. Overall he was able to walk about half the distance of the therapy room. He does real well with his left foot but they have to help him a bit with the right foot still. The staff Doctor checked in today to see how Paul was doing now that the muscle relaxers have been decreased. We are now convinced that the problem was indeed the medicines! Thank goodness. The CT that was done on Sunday came back OK. Apparently Wednesday is the day that the doctor gets together with all of the therapists to analyze each patients status and progress. I would love to be a "fly on the wall" for that!! I hope they will see that he is making progress. Tabby is working hard to get the house ready. She is getting lots of help from friends and family. What a blessing that is for all of us! Hopefully we won't be bringing him home for at least the next few weeks but at least the house is in the process of being ready.
God Bless,Lynne & Carl
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