Monday 29 April 2013

I can't believe another month has gone by!  April has been very busy.  We are busy changing James care while I am at work over to home and community care.  They are covered by Vancouver island health authority so now that financial piece is not coming out of his rehab funding through ICBC anymore. That means that the funds will be preserved for Neuro physio and speech therapy.  It is training week this week for the new team,  and they are coming out to meet James tomorrow and Thursday this week.

James and Mark went down to Nanaimo for James to get his Botox injections in his arm.  I am hoping that we will see some more changes for the good in the use of his right arm in the next week or two.

The speech therapist has given James a list of words to practice every day.  It is a pretty big list!  About 50+ words long!  His improvement has been awesome.  He is quite easy to understand when he wears a nose plug.  He is still losing a lot of air through his nose when he speaks, and there are many sounds that can do only when he plugs his nose.   Depending on what he is trying to say, he can even sometimes get two or three words out with out breath.  His speech therapist is super excited because she says that it is rare for her to see progress happening so quickly!

James appointment at GF strong rehab is in just under three weeks!  I am very eager to hear what they may be able to offer!