Today Brian had another day of outpatient speech at Craig.
I think I mentioned it in yesterday's update, but when we met with Brian's speech therapist yesterday he said how slow it feels at home and I know it is slower, but also it is going to feel slower since we are home. It doesn't mean he isn't still getting therapy while at home, it just isn't the scheduled classes that he was experiencing while inpatient.
To illustrate this, I'll go through our day in a little more detail and connect it to how this would be similar to work he did in inpatient therapies. To start today, Brian woke up and got himself ready for the day. This is what he would do during his ADLs in the morning. He gets out of bed, brushes his teeth, picks out his clothes, and gets dressed. Then he helps to wake up Lincoln. Once he is ready for the day and Lincoln is at least partially awake, we go down stairs. Walking up and down the stairs is an activity he did often in PT. Then he chooses what he wants for breakfast and he eats breakfast. Then when it was time we brought Lincoln to school and then to Craig for speech. Even on days when he doesn't have outpatient therapy, we practice a lot of the work he needs to do with speech just by having conversations throughout the day. While at Craig, I park in the parking garage, so we have to walk from the garage to the hospital and back and that would be a PT activity. Then when it was time to pick up Lincoln from school, we have to park and walk up to the school through the field, another opportunity for some PT.
We definitely value all the time Brian will spend in his outpatient therapies, but it is also important to think about how just living daily life also incorporates these therapeutic techniques.
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