Not much to update

We've had a pretty quiet week with not much going on. We had a nice visit with Ben and Jake over the weekend. We took M swimming again and he actually entered and exited the pool via the stairs with double handrails instead of the still broken lift. That was pretty cool, actually.

Therapies are Wednesday and Friday (along with 2 doc appts also on Fri.) so the week is going to get super busy. In the meanwhile, we've just been doing our home therapy, using the recumbent exercise bike at the gym, taking a couple of quick walks and enjoying time on the patio when we can. We've started watching some speech therapy videos on YouTube as well doing as some simple guided meditation practice. There is a lot of research that meditation can assist in the healing process. So why not?

Progress is pretty slow lately. You'd like to think that one morning you'd wake up and there would be HUGE steps forward in recovery, but unfortunately that is not how this works. As a matter of fact, some days I worry there might have been a small step backward and am are not sure why. Slower reflexes in the right hand, a bit more slurred speech at particular times of the day, lack of concentration, to name a few. This is normal, I understand, but freighting at times. It's difficult not to overthink and look too deeply at every single thing.

But, tomorrow is another day. Just do the best we can and hang in there.




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