Therapy Tuesday

Randy had his therapies today. While waiting for the first therapist, Randy's mom noticed that Randy's pupils were unequal (the left was larger than the right) and Randy was groggy. He told me last night that the new medication is making him a lot more tired during the day. I am hoping that his body adjusts to it and the tiredness goes away.

During speech, Vanessa reviewed Randy's homework. She also worked on the category task. The goal is to get 15 items in the given category within 30 seconds. With the categories given, the first try, Randy achieved 78.3% and the second time he achieved 85%.

In physical therapy, Julie re-assessed today. In strength, Randy has made good improvement on his legs and feet. She suggested that he continue to do hamstring stretches at home. In the ankles, the range of motion could still improve on the left side (it had improved about 3 degrees from last time checked). With balance, she tested Randy on standing with his eyes open and closed, then with standing on one foot in front of the other. His ankles are still a bit wobby. She also tested him with standing on one loeg. It was difficult for him to hold still and balance on either leg. With walking, Julie had to remind him to put his heel down first because he continues to step on the outsides of his feet. Julie said that she sees much improvement overall, though walking is still not as flluid and smooth as it could be. The physical therapy will be ending next week, but she will arrange for an additional pool session per week (so 2 per week) beginning the week of December 11th.

For occupational therapy, Tina has decided to go down to 1 session per week, concentrating only on Randy's goal to return to driving. Today, they did a circle story activity where each person would say a word and the next person would have to add to that word to continue the sentence to create a story. The activity is a good one for quick-thiking and creativity.

This evening, Randy hung out with Brandon and Cass and I played games and read together while Randy's mom hung out at one of our neighbor's houses.