Randy had occupational and physical therapy today at Valley Medical.
For occupational therapy, Randy has 4 goals he is working on:
1. To increase his grip/strength
2. To improve his multi-tasking activities
3. To plan and follow through an activity from start to finish
4. To increase his memory
Randy accomplished goal #3 with the planning and making of dinner yesterday.
The therapist gave him math problems to do and gave him the task of organizing a stack of books in any manner that he chose. For the books, Randy chose to organize them by size. With the math problems, in the timeframe he had, he finished 10 out of the 14 math problems. With errors, he was able to self-correct and seemed to do well when he talked himself through the process.
The therapist also had Randy do shoulder shrugs as a strengthening exercise.
In physical therapy Randy worked on the exercise bike and some balance activities.
This evening, when I got home, his friend Brandon was down on our kitchen floor looking at our fridge to try to help with getting the water attached again. I teased Randy about inviting his friend over to put him to work! We didn't get it hooked up but we at least now think we know what the problem is.
I think that is it for updates for today.
1 comment:
Prayers for the new medications reducing the headaches and providing better sleep. The higher level of physical activity and exertion will probably help to fall asleep at night, as well.
It is so good to hear of your continued progess and holding on to your sense of humor through all these "adventures"!
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