Week 7

We got the results for the blood work from last Tuesday's doctors visit.  All of his levels are in line.  Potassium levels are perfect, so no more potassium pills.  On Friday he went back to the doctor and took a balance test.  He passed with no concerns from the doctor.  The only recommendation that was made is that he doesn't walk backwards or turn quickly without being supervised.  He is walking and able to talk with full sentences.  He is still doing his two 10 min walks a day on the treadmill.  He is climbing stairs eight to ten times a day.  The things we are working on is occupational therapy mostly, he is doing good physically.  Things we are working on with him for occupation therapy is recognizing objects and saying what they are.  For example showing him a grapefruit, he didn't know what it was.  Asked him to get a hammer that was laying on the ground with a few other tools.  He picked up the hammer and said, "I think this is it."  So we are working on the thought process of what objects are.  This isn't with everything, some things he can tell you what they are with no problem.  He looks at a clock and you can see him trying to tell what time it is but just can't get it.   BUT he can read words like there's no tomorrow.  You show him the word grapefruit and he can read it.  Show him the word hammer, clock or any other word and he can read it.  He is reading an hour a day.  So occupational and speech therapy is helping him in the connecting process.  We are looking forward to our consolation on Thursday the 17th to start therapy.  Daniel has said that there are three things that bother him most of the time throughout the day.  Daniel stated, "My eyes seem always tired and it hurts moving them side to side", "Can't think as clearly and I'm not as strong as I used to be" and "Today was the first day I woke up without a dry mouth".  All part of the healing process.