Best of all - she got a hair cut! She went to her hair place - "One Fine Day" in Waxahachie. There, she left me in the waiting area with the kids (Avery did wonderfully and Luke slept) while she went back with Jeff. When I went to check on her Jeff commented that she had talked the whole time. She said, "Well, I haven't seen anyone except Amy lately." I think she misses visiting with the visitors at the hospital. Thank you all for coming to visit her there! Thank you also for calling Mom and talking with her. Her phone was broken on Saturday and not fixed until today. I am sorry if you called and got voice mail.
Another wonderful thing that happened today was the 10:00 therapy session. (We were only 30 minutes late.) Thank goodness we have a forgiving therapist (my husband, Ethan.)
Here is all about therapy today in his words: I haven't seen Debbie "do therapy" for about 2 weeks and even though I had observed her moving around the house some, we really hadn't had a chance to talk about how she was doing since the hospital. Last night I was able to read over some of her previous therapists' reports in the info we received from BIR, so that was a good benchmark for me to compare how she was today to 1-3 weeks ago. We talked a great deal today about how she was feeling and what she felt her limitations are. I felt that she moves in general, better than i anticipated and her static (not moving) balance was better than advertised. She does however have a great deal of Left arm weakness and neck/shoulder pain and tightness. We went over a few arm and leg strengthening exercises and scheduled her for more treatments later in the week. By the end of her time she complained of a good deal of dizziness as well as muscle fatigue and neck pain. We discussed her goals concerning her walking without an assistive device and her long term plans. She was a model patient and it was a good start to her outpatient therapy. I have already drawn up some homework for her and I will treat her again tomorrow afternoon. :)
Amy, I got back from CA yesterday. Jenny and Laura called to ask me to meet them at the River house at Camp Bandina to kayak with them. As I was getting stuff out of my truck, Ben Zickefoose walks up. He was a coach and teacher at ACU when your Mom and Dad were in school. His wife was the Siggie sponsor. Of course he remembered your folks and was very concerned about Debbie. He had not heard about her being in the hospital and was very glad to hear about her getting home. Later the girls and I went to Medina Children's Home for a function there. We saw Mark Waters and his wife. They had not heard about Debbie and were also thankful about her successes and that she was home. Please tell your Mom that Ben, Mark and Cindy were very happy to hear she is doing so well after a very difficult time. I enjoyed catching up on the blogs after being in CA for a couple of days.
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