But it's still so hot! We've had several firsts this week, three months since M has come home from the hospital. M and the children have been playing "keep away" in our community pool. M's been staying home without me for an hour at a time. He's doing more and more complex activities (such as going into another room to get a friend a glass of water) without coaching. In his month-end evaluations for his therapies, M greatly surpassed many of the therapists' goals. I'm happy to report he's using his left hand more and more voluntarily around the house and in activities of daily living. Finally, his emotions are starting to be more finely nuanced.
Our children have returned from all the visits to relatives and summer camps; school starts the last Monday of August. This is M's third week at TIRR's outpatient facility (TOTS), concentrating on the individual disciplines of OT, PT, and speech therapy. He'll probably continue at TOTS another month or so, then he may go to the Transitional Learning Center, an inpatient facility, in Galveston for further rehab perhaps to the end of the year.
So our days consist of going through normal household activities, albiet much more slowly than in the past, home exercises (about an hour or two a day) recreational activities to lift M's spirits and give his brain a workout, and (three days a week) going to therapy. Now we'll add in taking the kids to school and volunteering there.
Please pray for a smooth start of the school year and COMPLETE recovery.
