Today, Randy saw his other speech therapist, Sohi Oh. She went over strategies to help with word memory such as word association, imagery, auditory input (say aloud what you need to remember), rehearsal (repeating something over and over), chunking (grouping information, breaking things into smaller units), acronyms, and making up a story.

Randy also had physical therapy (see picture). He worked on balance coordination with various exercises. Backwards steps were harder for him ~ he was more wobbly. He worked on a shuttle machine where he had to put a ball in between his knees while doing repetitions. Then he had to push with his right leg and then his left. Pushing with the left leg was much harder.

In occupational therapy, Randy worked on multi-tasking. He had an excel table he had to replicate while being interrupted with needing to send an email and then getting a phone call. Randy did quite well with that.

Tonight when I got home, he was making dinner. He was cooking chicken on the barbeque. I asked him if he needed help or if he was handling things alright on his own. He said he was doing just fine and then informed me that he decided to make Nike's slogan his motto ~ Just Do It!. So that is how he is going to heal and get better ~ just do it.