Thursday Oct.25th

Today Christopher was slowly raised to a sitting position after laying flat for 36 hours. He was a little nauseated, but soon settled down. He started the day with Cheryl from speech therapy along with Edina from the Assistive Communication Department. They had Christopher working with eye recognition and his favorite Victoria Secret models (photos), he did very well with a little smirk on his face. Tomorrow they will bring him his own monitor, to have in his room which is calibrated to display Yes and No on the screen to aid him in communicating.

Megan from PT then got him out of bed into his wheelchair and off to the gym for some gentle stretching and sitting on the edge of the mat. He was able to hold himself upright quite well considering the wounds, from surgery, on his back and his abdomen. He is really quite tough.

We headed out to the garden for a little sunshine and then back to bed for a rest at lunchtime. Stephanie his OT came to take him back to the gym and she concentrated on stretching the muscles in his neck as he keeps turning his head to his left and she is encouraging him to keep it in the midline. He really does not enjoy that. To that end, I moved the furniture around in his room to encourage him to turn his head to the midline to watch TV. Maybe that will help, especially if there is baseball or football on TV.

We had a quiet evening until I spilt Christopher's tube feed onto him and into his bed and we had to clean him up and change the entire bed. Not quite what I had in mind at the end of the day!