Paul's Update - 05/14/06

Dear Friends:

This morning we started off early to go to Bob Evans for breakfast. Paul had scrambled eggs & bacon, English muffin, juice & coffee. He loved it and ate it all. He had a little trouble at one point getting his eggs on the fork to his mouth ... they fell off and he got really mad. He was given his spoon and did lots better. It is amazing to watch him eat. He does so well. Then he picked up his coffee with the handle of his coffee cup and took sips! Towards the end of breakfast he took a straw and put it in his coffee ... then he put his finger on the end of the straw and put the other end of the straw in his mouth to sip the coffee out of the end of the straw!! It was amazing to watch....he did that about 3 times. He was really careful to not let go of the end of the straw until it was in his mouth! The funny thing is ... this is something he would have done before the accident!!! Dad, Tabby & Audrey (the CNA) took Paul back home after breakfast. Paul & Tabby went back to bed for a bit. Dad went off to church. After church Dad, Bill, Tabby & Carolyn went to look at a Van that a friend had for sale. The hope is to retrofit the van to be handicap accessible. This van is a "one-owner" van ... has low miles and is in pristine condition. It was reasonably priced so Tabby decided to buy it. The next step will be going to DMV for tags and then they can take it to someone to do the customizing for accessibility. That will happen later in the week. It was pouring down rain when they got back home. As soon as the rain cleared Paul went outside to see the van ... he loved it. Paul was pretty tired today. He still says he has a headache ... maybe it is from the weather change. His eyes hurt also today. Good thing he will see the ophthalmologist this week. Before dinner (around 3pm) he wanted to lay down. He laid in bed and watched TV. He seemed very alert ... just tired. Bobby went to Taco Bell for dinner and got Paul a bean burrito. Hopefully speech therapy will start this week. He seems to make several different sounds that appear to be words. It would be nice to start teaching him HOW to make sounds that are words!! Paul & Tabby were ready for bed early tonight so Dad was able to come home before 9pm. So we start another week!!


Blessings, Carl & Lynne

P.S. Some folks have said they could not see the picture I send a couple days ago....here it is...hope this is better! In case you don't know...Bobby is on the left and Paul is on the right!