September 19, 2006

Took the car in again today – Sunday I had noticed oil leaking onto the garage floor (didn’t take the car in yesterday because the mechanics couldn’t give me a ride back that day). Fortunately it doesn’t seem to be a huge problem – there are a couple leaks (not being mechanically minded, I forget where the guy said they are). Unfortunately they didn’t have the parts to fix it today, but they said they’ll fix it tomorrow. I left my car with them.

Gary took the bus to rehab, as well as from it to the university and from the university to home, as he has been doing. His substitute therapist at rehab didn’t seem all that interested in what the other therapist had been doing with him. She did her own evaluation, but other than the wrist exercises, she didn’t have him do weights. She is interested in improving his shoulder flexibility and gave him some new exercises for that. Though it’s true his shoulder flexibility is important – today he got his pants on all the way by himself except he couldn’t quite reach around to the back to pull them up the last little bit because of his lack of shoulder flexibility – I worry that she is not going to have him keep up with the weights. Plus, it could be that Thursday he’ll have someone new again, because they’re just getting people to fill in for his own therapist, so if each different person has to do her own evaluation and her own stuff, then he might not be doing anything consistently for the next two weeks. I told him he should do weight-training stuff on his own (he does do theraband exercises on his own on the days he doesn’t have therapy, but that’s not quite the same).