More Work Today

After his day of rest, Randy started his work again. In physical therapy, he had 2 sessions today. They worked with walking with the walker, standing and balancing (he was really having a hard time with putting equal weight on his two legs, he really favors the right leg). His balance is getting a little better every day.

Randy also had a couple of sessions of occupational therapy today. They really worked on stretching out his left arm since the main issue with that arm is tight muscles due to having it cramped up close to him for so long and not using it. They also had him work on the board seen in the picture. This exercise was a mixture of following directions, but she also used it as a way to get him to bear weight on his left arm while he was using his right arm. He had to take pegs out of the bucket and put them onto the board in the pattern hanging in front of him. This part he did great at. However, when she asked him to put the pegs back into the bucket, he struggled. He would put them into the bucket, but as soon as he let go of them, he grabbed them again and put them back into the board. But when she took down the pattern in front of him, he didn't have issues with putting the pegs in and leaving them in the bucket. I thought that was interesting.

Randy also had a bunch of tests done today. The doctor he has at the rehab place wants to see a base line for everything, so he had x-rays done and is taking samples of various things, so Randy was busy with that today as well. He also got Randy a patch for his eye. When both eyes are open, Randy is having double vision, but when he closes one eye (and it doesn't matter which one he closes) he can see fine. So he is suppose to alternate the patch between the two eyes, though all he did was wear it for a couple of minutes and take it off.

Today, Randy also asked quite a bit about the accident or moreso about what has happend to him since the accident. At one point, he said "What's it called when your brain goes on holiday" ~ he was referring to a coma. I just thought that was a great way of putting it ~ his brain has just been on holiday.