A pretty quiet day. We just had both therapies and an afternoon at home together.
I do have to say, though, that occupational therapy is interesting. They have him do things that I would never even think of. Like today, they gave him a statement such as "Your cat is sick" and he had to find something in the yellow pages relative to that. He actually did pretty good. He did 7 of them and it didn't take long for him to tire. We then took a walk around the inside of the hospital. We ended up over at the ICU again. He remembered going there just before we checked out of rehab. He's making new memories. Yea!
I know now why he "JUST DOESN'T WANT TO GO TO THERAPY". He kind of doesn't like his speech therapist. Okay, not "kind of". He can't stand him. But I keep reminding him how much he's helping him and how important this part of his recovery really is. Wish you could see his eye-rolling while we're in there. It's quite comical, actually.
I think I forgot to say in yesterday's post that our primary care physician read something interesting to us out of the OR reports. Dr. Gaufin actually removed a small portion of brain tissue. It was severely bruised and filled with bone fragments, so it had to come out. Add that to the laundry list of issues and his recovery becomes even MORE remarkable!
I can't imagine how frustrating this must be, especially if he does't like the speech therapist. It's still amazing to me every time I learn something else about this process that Mark is doing so well. So here's a question... will the tissue that they removed from his brain grow back?
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