Ponoka July 10/2014

We have been in Ponoka for a couple of weeks now.  James is settling into the brain injury center nicely, and his therapies are really getting going.  All the therapies here really work together, very much more than they did in Vancouver.  Some of his therapists will be walking with him with his walker from one therapy to the next,  and soon he will be starting the walk to lunch program.  The nurses or therapy assistants will be supervising his walking to the lunch room.  He is also on a list to start the breakfast club.  He will go to a therapy kitchen in the morning and they will help him make his own breakfast 5 days a week!  There is a school room at the center,  and James goes there 3 hours a week. He is working on his math skills and idea generation.  They are also working closely with speech to encourage his speaking and intelligibility while they work on his school goals.  I am very impressed with the programs here so far!  The therapists are very thorough and I love how it is truly a team approach.  It is a very relaxed, atmosphere on the unit and the staff all seem happy and they all seem very passionate about what they do.  James spends the weekends with Sarah and I at our trailer.  It has been a very interesting experience camping here though!  We arrived at the beginning of the Ponoka Stampede,  and the town was packed,  not to mention nightly concerts, fireworks and parties going on all around us for the first week we were here.  I am so glad that is over!  Now we fall asleep listening to the coyotes in the evenings.  The July storms have started and we have experienced a few Alberta thunder, lightening , wind and hail storms!  Needless to say,  we are actively looking for a sturdier place to live in than our tent trailer!