We are in the final stretch at Craig! This is both good and bad. Obviously good because we all are so ready to go home and Brian's desperate to get home. But it's bad since Brian is now even more so less interested in the activities he needs to do for his therapies.
Brian started out the day today with ADLs with his OT. Then following that session he had speech. He told me today that speech is now his favorite of his classes because she never makes him feel stupid. Today they created some info cards for Brian to carry and also for sharing with people who may spend some extra time with Brian and that way Brian doesn't need to explain his condition and how to best interact with him. (I forgot these at the hospital today, but I'll bring them home tomorrow and I'll share on here since that feels like the best place).
Then after his speech session today he had PT. In PT today she measured his range of motion in his joints again. She did this in Brian's first week and it's a great way that they can have data to show the improvement he's made. This was wrapped up a bit early and she suggested a few extra activities we could do. This is where being so close to discharge isn't great. Brian said he was ready to be done because he is going home in 2 days. But he still had 15 minutes left, so that is a good chunk of time that he should utilize. After a bit of convincing, we did 2 flights of stairs together to practice those, but then he was done.
This afternoon we met with Brian's pharmacist in order to do her final discharge activity of loading a pillbox. Brian's on hardly any meds that he will go home with so this took hardly any time at all. So in the extra time from this, we walked the halls again. We did several laps and chatted with quite a few members of the staff that we won't see again. Then Brian had a final appointment with his technology speech therapist and she wanted to make sure we were all set for discharge.
Tomorrow is Brian's final day of therapies at Craig. It's gonna be very sad to not see that staff every day anymore, but it will also be so very nice to be home again. Once we discharge, it is important that we both know that Brian's still far from done with his therapies. He will continue his recovery in outpatient for an extended period.
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