Sue gets out and about

Hey another long awaited update for Sue is at hand. Its amazing what each day brings and the changes we see. For those of you who don’t see her everyday, may not see subtle changes, but see major changes. Day to day, even from Monday to Thursday is really amazing.

To start Sue has already meet and exceeded her occupational and physical therapy goals. Her trainers are quite amazed as to the woman they saw two weeks ago, and she is no longer going to receive that help. They want to focus the remaining covered days with speech therapy, which is where she needs more work. Not that she can’t speak mind you, she does that quite well, but she still has problems with the right words. She was getting a bit lazy getting out of bed recently, claiming she needed help, so I inquired with the therapy ladies. They told me to move her bed so she can get out on her left side, not her right. Amazing, now mom can prop herself out and get out of the bed! We still have the hospital bed with rails; we are still not keen on her walking about at night. Her right side still has some neglect, but her legs are strong. We walk at the park each night (or try too) and she pretty much speed walks! I have to remind her to slow down.

She is getting more chores to do at home, like vacuum, dust and dishes. Because the right hand is still weak, the dishes are double checked by folks with two good hands! Yesterday we took a trip to Sue’s office where many of the people she worked with came by to see her. I could tell mom was both happy and sad to be there. While she misses everyone, I think she realized going back to work is not an option for her, at least at this time. Later that night she was bit perturbed at this realization, even though she did not say it. Thanks to all the friends that came to wish her well when she was there, it meant very much to her. We will come back as often as you let us, and feel free to stop by her home and visit also.

We are now on less medication too, which seems to have helped the mood, there is a lot less anxiousness it seems. On Monday Sue had her follow up with the rehab doctors and they were amazed at her progress too. We visited some of the nurses that had helped her and they were glad to see how much she came about, which was nice know.

Well that’s all for now, and I hope to touch base soon here again as things progress.