Today was a busy day for me today! 😴
During PT Brian did a few standing exercises and then did a lot of walking around. He had a sub for his therapist today since his usual one is on PTO for today and tomorrow.
Then Brian had speech. I walked with Brian to speech and then I went to meet with Brian's behavior specialist. She wanted to talk about how our weekend will go (more on this later). After speech his therapist came to talk about how it went. She told me that Brian taught her how to play Black Widow (I'm totally serious that Brian is OBSESSED with that game).
Right after speech, Brian had manual therapy. She did some needling, stretching, and massaging on his left shoulder. Then after this we had a consultation with the telehealth coordinator to discuss doing telehealth outpatient therapy.
This afternoon started with OT. In that session she had Brian do some more stretches on his left shoulder. She also talked a lot about our weekend and how that will go. She also had Brian practice taking off and putting on his shirt. This is very tricky right now due to his shoulder needing to stay immobile. Then she talked about some suggestions for life at home and how to make sure Brian stays safe. The session ended with a round of hangman.
Then he ended his day with an appointment with his psychologist. After wrapping up work tonight, I had to shower and pack for our weekend. This weekend is our independent living trial which means Lincoln and I are living in the hospital with Brian and will be responsible for doing all the work in caring for him all weekend so the staff will not be assisting us at all. This helps to make sure that we are all good to go for discharge and can give the staff an idea of what additional therapy can be incorporated in the final days Brian is still inpatient. So this means that tomorrow after I pick up Lincoln, we are going straight back to the hospital and will be living there until Sunday evening.
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