Gf Stronge

James has been at gf Stronge for almost two weeks now.  It has been a tough couple of weeks though.  On day 5 he got a roommate.  His roommate was walking and talking, and very nasty to James.  When James came into the room he would swear at him and started calling him names.  He also stole James iPad with his communication program on it.  They found it under the roommates mattress .  It got to the point where James wouldn't go in the room while the roommate was there.  He would just sit in the hallway.  They moved James to a new room last Thursday.  His new roommate seems to be a really sweet guy.  He is in a wheelchair too,  and he also has some communication issues.  He is able to speak better than James can though,  and often let's the nurses know what James is trying to say!  James iPad went missing again after they moved him though.  The charging cord was discovered in the old roommates possession,  but they haven't been able to find the iPad.  So poor James is trying to get along without it for now.  The society that provided the iPad has said that they will provide James with another iPad,  as long as the hospital staff can figure out ways to increase the security around the iPad.  James has been having a hard time with the fact that they won't let him go to bathroom on his own either.  He has to call a nurse to go to the bathroom.  While his transfers are supposed to be just supervised,  when he gets a new nurse,  they seem to feel the need to actually transfer him themselves,  which is very frustrating  to James because it is difficult to communicate with them.  I did get an email today from his OT that she is going to let him get in and out of bed unsupervised though.  She still wants to work on the bathroom transfers. 

I also got a call from a fella who works on the recreational therapy team last night.  He is going to start taking James out a couple of days a week !  Today they are going to go and get chocolate cake at white spot.  They are also planning on going to the movies on another day.  

James has an appointment with the Neuro Opthomologist next Friday, and I am going to go over early to Vancouver, so I can go with him.  It is to go over the results of some field of vision tests that they did almost two weeks ago.