Week 7 Part 2

Daniel's had an exciting week.  On Wednesday Daniel got his feeding tube (peg) removed.  YEAH! He said it was very painful when they took it out and it hurts every time he moves his stomach, sitting in a chair, standing back up, moving side to side, etc.  Thursday appointment day for the neurologist.  We have been waiting for this.  As he meet with the doctor and the doctor reviewed his records, and had Daniel tell him what happened with his brain trauma accident, the doctor was AMAZED at Daniel's recovery.  He did an evaluation on Daniel's current status and set him up for physical, occupational and speech therapy.  He indicated that speech (connecting the dots/recognition/word association) therapy would be the most needed but will be reviewed after the therapist evaluation of Daniel.   Friday he went to speech and physical therapy.  Monday he set up for occupational therapy.  After the evaluation from the neurologist therapy, schedules will be set up daily and weekly.  In speech therapy their focus for the upcoming week at home for Daniel is to manage his own schedule.  Time he gets up, appointments throughout the day, where he needs to be without parents and or others reminding him to get ready, to be on time from his schedule.  This is very important as Daniel retrains his brain on daily events.  In physical therapy their focus at home for Daniel is regular exercise, light to moderate weight lifting to build his muscles and stamina back up.