Rehab baby!!

Changes for today:
1) Liam moved next door to 461

A private room, because he is now officially a rehab patient, and no longer a neuro patient!! Today he met with the doctors that will be taking care of him and they evaluated him. Tomorrow he will meet with the each of the therapists for his initial evaluations and they will start planning everything they are going to do with him. It's going to be a long day, so not a great day for visitor, but he might like to see people come by to encourage him. I think they aren't going to want us around much at the beginning. His biggest problem is staying focused, and having others in the room makes it much worse. I was talking to his doctors, and they may have us leave alot during the first parts of therapy so they can get more out of him.

Tomorrow he has :
8:30-9:30am physical therapy
9:30-10:30am occupational therapy
10:45-11:15am theraputic recreation
1:00-2:00pm speech pathology

2) Next week starting on Monday he will have a set schedule for each of these therapies, we will find out that schedule on Monday. It's going to be a struggle to keep him awake and functioning for all of this time.

3) Liam had his second shower today, I helped him of course :) He loved sitting on the stool under the hot water. We were in there for so long the nurses came to check to make sure everything was okay. Any of you that have every lived with Liam know he loves 30-40 minute hot showers. And when the nurses told him that there would be a weekly meeting with the nurses, doctors, therapists, and family to plan and that he would need to tell them what his goals were he said "longer showers, but they are going to say shorter showers."

4)His cast came off today. He did keep it, and they might use it as a splint still. They might put another straighter one on tomorrow after the evaluations. We will have to wait and see.

5) He has been feeding him self for all his meals, and cleaning his plate completely.

6) His diet has been changed to semi solids, so soft stuff like pasta and fish are now on the menu! This will start with breakfast tomorrow, and he is excited about it. They also mentioned that we can bring in food and there is a fridge and microwave here.

He really wants to go home, but isn't ready yet. I did find out that there is some paperwork I can do to allow me to bring the dogs into his room! I am very excited about that and so is Liam. He keeps asking to see the dogs again, he misses them a lot.

Lastly, I am going to need some coverage because I need to go out of town twice to visit Yale (March 26-28) and John Hopkins (April 2-4). If you are available to spend some time with Liam on those days please let me know so we can get a schedule set up. Thanks!!