Saturday, August 7, 2010

Flexibility Needed

Rehabs are interesting!  On one hand you are in a hospital setting with all that implies about structure and sameness -  meals are always at the same time, menus never vary, the blood drawers will come in at 5:00 AM, etc. (you get the picture!) However, you never can count on any day to be like the previous one.  For instance last weekend, there was zero scheduled for Lynn on Saturday and only a picnic outing on Sunday.  Today - a Saturday- he had 3 sessions of PT and 3 of OT on his schedule.  Tomorrow - thank goodness- he has nothing.   BUT he could have had a third MRI on his schedule Sun. but they decided to wait until Monday for that.  See what I mean?  For me it is hard to plan for anything ahead because even what I told you about Sunday might be different tomorrow. 

Today Lynn worked on two fairly new things - 1.  How to transfer from the mat to the chair without a board and 2)  more intensive work on wheelies (they are hard!)

He is still fighting nausea and those withdrawal symptoms.  Please pray that this will pass soon.

The third MRI is to take pictures of parts of his spine not yet recorded to see if there are any other danger spots.  This is to reassure Lynn and the doctors that the pain he feels in his back still is  muscular and not related to any discs.

1 comment:

  1. Will keep praying that is for sure - just got in from herding the deer out of the backyard - they get in and can't figure how to get out - am getting pretty good at this and getting them to go where I want them - but they are so elegant the way they prance across the yard!

    Can't imagine doing the wheelies - all these new things!

    Love ya, Lin

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