It has been just over 6 months since James' accident.  I have been too busy to really think about that though!  he has been doing awesome at his therapies.  In the last week and a half he has graduated from the parellel bars in physio to being assisted in the U Step walker.  Each time he has a session in it he gets a bit better at it.  He sent his first text by himself this week too!  He is getting pretty good at typing on the ipad.  He is needing less assistance with his transfers too.  He gets himself up and mostly just needs support for balance.  He seems to working on wrapping some of the nurses around his little finger too.  Last week he convinced the night staff to get him up at 5:30 am to play video games.  Yesterday morning it was 3:30 am!  When the morning nurse came in she put him back to bed for a couple of hours.  He still did great in his therapies though.

Well tomorrow will be 3 weeks in rehab for James.   It has been a rough 3 weeks,  but I think he is starting to settle in.  They changed his meds just after we arrived and he became very anxious and we were given an ultimatum that if he didn't cooperate and participate in therapy by the end of this week they may have to send him back to Comox.  A new doctor saw him on the weekend and was able to get his medication back on track and he has had a much better start to the week.  He has become completely continent this week.  Not only during the day but at night too.  He got a new communication device today.  It has words in it and has predictive software so it is much faster than typing everything out or sign language finger spelling!  He loves gadjets and this is a pretty cool gadjet!  When we were getting him set up with the new gadjet today his favourite LPN came in to unhook his feed and give him his meds.  The OT prompted him to say something to the nurse.  James went into the social page and chose " I appreciate your assistance " and then he typed in "Bud".  It was so funny!    He is walking with the paralell bars in physio.  Yesterday he didnt want anyone actually touching him.  He walked the second half of the session with just verbal cues!