Tom’s day began with follow up blood tests and speech therapy.  His right shoulder is still giving him a lot of trouble.  Tom is worried if he takes too much pain killer, it’ll mask the injury and he’ll over work it.  Where he thinks it just needs to rest. I talked  with both OT and PT with Tom present, they both said that no weights or bands will be used just now.  However, movement of the area is necessary to keep the area from locking up.  X-ray showed no fracture, so that should be okay.Tom felt better after I talked with them.  It seems that his memory isn’t quit there, or he just needs re assurance that he’ll be okay.  I cannot even begin to imagine what Tom’s been through and the fear that follows.

PT had Tom up and walking for quite a long time.  He even climb up three steps and down.  When Tom got back he was smiling, and promptly  announced that he only fell once.  I’m like really, and no he didn’t fall. Tom thinks he’s funny.  He did have a couple of missed steps in some turning exercise, but no falls. Pastor Scott, made a great observation in Tom.  He’s noticed that Tom has more a natural smile on his face these days.  His smile sure looks good.  Thank you Pastor Scott for your wonderful words at just the right time.

The nurse told me that we’ve been approved to go to Immanuel’s in house therapy.  Now, we wait for a room to open up.  Tom is off all IV’s(even the saline), and on oral medicines.  We could move as early as the end of the week.  They still need to monitor Tom and make sure he can pass certain assessments before moving on. Tom continues to very tired and sleep comes a bit more easily during the day.  Night time is still some of an issue, and that’s mostly because of his shoulder hurting. It wakes him up.

Until tomorrow….