Wonderful Wednesday Mar 18

I really enjoy Wednesdays especially when the sun is shinning. If y'all haven't noticed from my past posts, I'm kind of addicted to the sun. Wednesdays are great because the physical therapist and occupational therapist come to the house and work with Jerry. I think Jerry likes Wednesdays as well because we don't make him get out of bed until about 5:00. PT and OT work with Jerry in his bed. We generally go through our morning routine, then Jerry sits in bed and works on his computer for about an hour until OT comes at 1:30, Cheryl usually works with Jerry for about an hour. Next is lunch and then PT arrives about 3:30, David works with Jerry for about an hour as well. It's really nice to have a break for 2 hours in the middle of the day to get paper work done, although the time flies much to quickly.

As the days routine settled in I had a sense of peace, with Dennis and our oldest son Josh working on the house outside hearing the power tools going and knowing the room is well underway. Janea helped me do some chores and fed Jerry his lunch so I could make a few phone calls. Later in the evening Jessica rubbed Jerry's feet and encouraged him to move his toes then kissed him on the head and said good night. How blessed we are to have such wonderful kids, everyone pitching in to help.

The SCI-FIT trainer introduced a new exercise on Monday for Jerry, let me see if I can describe it for you without making it to confusing. Jerry lays on the table on his side, the trainer sits on the table on Jerry's backside next to his buttocks. The bottom leg is straight and the top leg is bent at a 45 degree angle, the trainer grabs the top leg at the knee and ankle and pulls it back to stretch the hip flexer, Jerry's job is to attempt to initiate the movement. While doing this exercise at SCI-FIT the trainer said she could feel a little initiation on Jerry's part in the hip flexer. I told David the therapist that comes to the house about this exercises and he tried it with Jerry as well. David said he could also feel something initiate and was encouraged by what he felt. This is all good stuff.

Tomorrow we are off to SCI-FIT and are very much looking forward to it. We are hoping to start on gait training some time soon. I'll explain gait training later once he is able to do that.

Thank you all so much for following Jerry's progress and keeping him and our family in your daily prayers. Thank you all who leave wonderful comments on this blog, it's very uplifting for us. Jerry reads your comments and enjoys hearing your thoughts and prayers as well.

Good night,
Katie