Tuesday

I went up first thing this morning with Philip and my friend Rene. My mom and Dave were already there. He was just finishing up speech therapy when we arrived. We went and visited Christie for a little while. She gave me a kiss. It was really cool. She looks wonderful without her trach. Both of her eyes are open and she moves her head all around. Richard came over with her also. He got up and gave her a hug and a kiss. For morning therapy he had to walk on the treadmill for 15 minutes. Then he had stretching of the shoulder where he singing the dhoulder song (you have to be there). Then we played kick with a beach ball for 15 minutes. By then it was lunch time. Richard did his usual, Im not hungry thing, but his therapist wasnt having it. She pushed him until he ate 1/3 of his plate. We told some jokes during lunch. He was actually laughing. It made me laugh because he was so amused with himself. After lunch we played UNO for 30 minutes in the common room. Poor Rene never won! We wheeled him over to his OT. He hates the 130 session because they stretch his shoulder and it hurts. So he has decided to call it torture instead of therapy. And instead of her being the occupational therapist, she is the occupational terrorist. We left after that therapy. He was headed to his room for an hour nap before his next therapy. We saw Christie again before we left. She was in the chair and looking all around. Its nice to see both eyes open.