Morning

Mark continues to recover at a tremendous speed. He spends more and more time in his wheelchair, and assists his care givers in his transfer from bed to chair.

When we were down in the gym one day, I knew he had been looking around at the other patients, most in much worse condition. I asked him if he felt lucky, he said yes.

He’s having less trouble focusing his eyes, and even started some exercises for his eye muscles yesterday. I saw him practicing the rest of the day. His occupational therapist asked Mark questions about his vision and they determined that his double vision was vertical (one head on top of the other vs. side by side, due to the fact that one eye tends to look down more than the other) and they overlap about 50 %. His lung secretions are lessening and I think the trach will be capped very soon. I’m preparing some of his favorite foods so they’re on hand as soon as he can ask for them.

His cognitive skills are rapidly improving as is his strength; even his motions are more fluid. He can completely follow an object by moving his eyes from side to side and down, but up is still a problem.

For those of you coming from California, Texas and Mass., there are apartments on site at no charge so try give me as much notice as possible and I’ll try to get one for you. It’ll be so much easier to stay there and just walk across the parking lot for a visit. That way you can go multiple times a day. Bryn Mawr Rehab is about 20 miles (and a 40 minute ride) from my apartment.

For all the rest of you, Mark would love a visit anytime!!