Sunday, December 12, 2004
The First Week Of Recovery Sets The Tone
...for the rest of the recovery. Rudy is at home- at the end of his week in the hospital, he was "recovered" to the point that Rehabilitation would have discharged him at. Does that make sense?
He walks with a four-point cane (that's the cane where the end becomes a plate with 4 feet coming off that, much more stable), slowly. He cannot move or feel his toes on his left foot, and his leg from the calf down is usually pretty cold to the touch. We hot-pack it, just in case, and it always feels cold to him even when it is actually warm.
His left hand he can use, slowly. He has very little strength in his hand, but he can move his fingers and even hold light things. Sometimes his hand goes numb.
His speech is slow. He doesn't have a problem finding the words to say- his problem is trying to get them out. There's that "wall" between thinking of the word and saying the word and most words are very hard to force through that "wall". He is also very sensitive to light and noise, as they tend to give him "sensory overload" very quickly.
But, thank God, he is home. And the neurologists at the hospital said there is a "good chance" for complete recovery. Although the are concerned with his speech right now and will order extra therapy if his speech is still bad at the end of a month.
They have his blood thickness under control (hahaha) right now- for two days his I.N.R. has been 3.5, which is the high end of where it should be.
Merry Christmas!
Anne
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He walks with a four-point cane (that's the cane where the end becomes a plate with 4 feet coming off that, much more stable), slowly. He cannot move or feel his toes on his left foot, and his leg from the calf down is usually pretty cold to the touch. We hot-pack it, just in case, and it always feels cold to him even when it is actually warm.
His left hand he can use, slowly. He has very little strength in his hand, but he can move his fingers and even hold light things. Sometimes his hand goes numb.
His speech is slow. He doesn't have a problem finding the words to say- his problem is trying to get them out. There's that "wall" between thinking of the word and saying the word and most words are very hard to force through that "wall". He is also very sensitive to light and noise, as they tend to give him "sensory overload" very quickly.
But, thank God, he is home. And the neurologists at the hospital said there is a "good chance" for complete recovery. Although the are concerned with his speech right now and will order extra therapy if his speech is still bad at the end of a month.
They have his blood thickness under control (hahaha) right now- for two days his I.N.R. has been 3.5, which is the high end of where it should be.
Merry Christmas!
Anne
Anne2Snakie's Snake Swallowings Site
The Girl Flesh Forum
For you RSS types, my blog as an RSS feed: "http://anne2snakie.blogspot.com/atom.xml"
My Hopefully Spam Proof Email Address: "anne2snakie AT yahoo DOT com"
I think you can figure out how to type that into the TO: line : )
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