Look Out World, Here he comes!

What a busy, exciting, hectic week it has been for Jon! Thursday the e-stim (electrical stimulation) on his legs and Friday his trial chair came and what a doozy it is! Three inches of special padding on the seat to relieve pressure on the derriere. In addition to reclining, the whole chair can go up and down so he can sit comfortably at any table or view things at different heights. I didn’t get a chance to see him operate it for the first time but did wise crack that for the first few days he probably needed a horn--it has one! He has driven it down the hall to the nurses station and back.This means that he can go downstairs to therapy and will be getting dressed daily for at least part of the day. The gowns have been driving us absolutely buggy!!! Getting into it is quite a procedure since he needs to have his turtle shell back brace and binders on his chest before he can sit upright. Then he needs to be hoisted up into the chair.

Yesterday afternoon they shut off the electricity in Jon’s room so they could install a special power strip in his room. . . just not enough outlets for all the electrical stuff he and his room mate need and 3 cords were stretching across the pathway. As if that wasn’t enough if respiratory needed to suction him they had to unplug one of the other items. And occasionally they have forgotten to replug what they took out. This staff is really overloaded. No one had been down as of the time I left on Friday to rearrange all the plugs so 3 cords were still crossing between the end of the bed and the wall.

We had been spoiled by the last speech therapist. He was assigned to Michelle and unless he missed a day and was making it up on the weekend she was the only therapist he saw. So far this week I think he’s seen 3 different gals popping in the door saying they were there for speech therapy.

I don't know if the rest of you are having trouble reaching this site or not but I certainly am. I have been trying to post for most of the evening. If I hadn't had trouble sleeping I would not be here at this time of day (excuse me, night) and writing you! The message has been written and sitting on my desktop I just couldn't get onto the site to log in and paste it.

Thanks for stopping by. . . hope you have a safe weekend.