I got up early this morning and sorted through some of the clothes here and carried various things into Nancy.\u00a0 Two T-shirts were among the things and as I took them out of the bag Nancy remarked that one was an XL and the other an XXL, and she was right.\u00a0 Still, she hasn\u2019t been in street clothes since November 27.\u00a0 Okay, so the stuff wasn\u2019t new but she looked like a new person.<\/p>\n
The therapy crew got her dressed and she spent 3 to 4 hours doing occupational, speech, and physical therapy.\u00a0 Some of the time was spent just answering questions and making base-line assessments but she did quite a bit from a wheelchair and briefly stood between parallel bars \u2013 standing, moving forward and backward, and moving muscles that hadn\u2019t been moved in 8 weeks.<\/p>\n
She got a powered bed and can now raise and lower the entire platform and\/or tilt the foot or head areas.<\/p>\n
She had several visitors including a couple of young friends that because of age restrictions are not allowed in the local hospitals.\u00a0 (Coughs, colds and the swine flu scare even caused the local hospital to remove all the magazines and booklets from the waiting rooms.)\u00a0 But the rehabilitation center expects visitors and seeing old friends (well, young friends) again was a nice surprise.<\/p>\n
And in the mail today came a plastic card \u2013 densely printed with information.\u00a0 It came from the company that supplied Nancy\u2019s new heart valve and it has all the relevant stuff a medical specialist might want to know about it \u2013 including the name of the surgeon that stitched it in.\u00a0 Like other important cards it is to be carried with you.\u00a0 For the wallet, more stuff.\u00a0 And in this case, it is new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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