October 27, 2006
Gary went back up in weights on those couple he had to drop down on because of his new chair, so he accommodated to the balance differences fast! His therapist adjusted the angle of the footplate on his chair, which I had thought should be done but was willing to let her do it ;-), and she also raised the plate a little. But unfortunately now Gary can’t roll up under the kitchen sink because the raising of the plate made his knees too high to get under it, so I’m going to have to fool with the plate again. Rats.
We had rain throughout the day, and I feared Gary was going to get his feet soaked because he hadn’t yet gotten galoshes like I suggested, but the bus driver pushed him from rehab into the bus and again from the bus into the math building, so Gary’s feet didn’t get wet (the rest of him and much of the chair was covered by a poncho).
We watched another twenty minutes of Brooke Ellison. If I hadn’t known it was based on a true story and that Christopher Reeve had directed it, I would have thought they had their facts wrong. The girl was definitely not at Shepherd! I can’t imagine the staff at Shepherd talking to the girl and her parents the way these staff were doing, or trying to regularly serve up a sedative to the girl because “it made things easier.” (Not to mention that I doubted they’d leave the medication with the mother.) The part where the neighborhood showed up to help Mr. Ellison remodel his home had me bawling, thinking of the volunteers who worked so hard to make our own house accessible to Gary.
On a completely different note, Gary’s increase in the amount of fiber he eats has really been helping regulate his bowels – it took awhile for his body to get used to it.
Gary went back up in weights on those couple he had to drop down on because of his new chair, so he accommodated to the balance differences fast! His therapist adjusted the angle of the footplate on his chair, which I had thought should be done but was willing to let her do it ;-), and she also raised the plate a little. But unfortunately now Gary can’t roll up under the kitchen sink because the raising of the plate made his knees too high to get under it, so I’m going to have to fool with the plate again. Rats.
We had rain throughout the day, and I feared Gary was going to get his feet soaked because he hadn’t yet gotten galoshes like I suggested, but the bus driver pushed him from rehab into the bus and again from the bus into the math building, so Gary’s feet didn’t get wet (the rest of him and much of the chair was covered by a poncho).
We watched another twenty minutes of Brooke Ellison. If I hadn’t known it was based on a true story and that Christopher Reeve had directed it, I would have thought they had their facts wrong. The girl was definitely not at Shepherd! I can’t imagine the staff at Shepherd talking to the girl and her parents the way these staff were doing, or trying to regularly serve up a sedative to the girl because “it made things easier.” (Not to mention that I doubted they’d leave the medication with the mother.) The part where the neighborhood showed up to help Mr. Ellison remodel his home had me bawling, thinking of the volunteers who worked so hard to make our own house accessible to Gary.
On a completely different note, Gary’s increase in the amount of fiber he eats has really been helping regulate his bowels – it took awhile for his body to get used to it.
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