Friday, October 23, 2009


Day 1 at Harborview went really well.  Ang had multiple therapy sessions and we think that she really wowed everyone around here.  She got a little tired this afternoon but she had enough stamina to make it through the day.  It seams that the therapists roles at Harborview are a bit different from what we got used to at Park West.  The OT folks do some of what the PT and ST folks did and the PT folks do some of the old OT exercises.  It is all a bit confusing.  Ang really let her sense of humor out of the bag today.  Lots of fun to watch.  She was also talking to anyone that would listen about how wonderful Danish bacon is..  We call my wife the “bacon pusher” and she is back to it again.

Besides the standard therapies we had to go downstairs have more x-rays taken of Ang’s arm.  What a change in her from the last time that we had to do this. The last time Ang had to move her arm around for x-rays she almost killed the poor tech.  This time Ang was her sweet usual self and chatted with the techs and did what she could to help.

Later in the evening after everything had quieted down, Ang’s attending physician came by to give her a quick evaluation.  Most of the talk was about the pins and needles sensation that Ang feels throughout her left side and what the plan was to assess any potential nerve damage.  The process involves needles and electro-stimulation.  Should be slated for sometime next week. Ang is not too thrilled about it to say the least. They are going to give her some medication tonight on a trial basis that should address the tingling.  Only draw-back is that it makes you a bit tired.  They are going to give her a baby dose and we’ll see.

And-  She extended the fingers on her left hand.  Only a little, but we all saw it!!  We also got started working on stairs.

Not too much else to report tonight.  We were initially told that tomorrow was going to be a light day, but after looking at Ang’s schedule for tomorrow it looks like she has therapy from 8:15 am until 3:45 pm.  Should be a busy day.

G’night-

Josh
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