Thursday - April 2

Jerry had rehab at Dominican today, he did some weight bearing leg exercises. The physical therapist Mary Ann had straps hooked to Jerry's feet and ankles witch was connected to a weight machine. Mary Ann had Jerry focus on the movement as she moved his leg in different exercises. They also worked on some exercises that engaged the trunk muscles. Mary Ann seemed excited in the amount of movement he seemed to get from his trunk. Jerry's PT appointments are only one hour, it seems like the are ending shortly after getting started. Mary Ann talked about getting the ball rolling to get a standing frame in our home, I was glad to hear we have one more person on our side for getting this piece of equipment for Jerry to use at home. It's such an important part of therapy, there are so many benefits of standing and being upright. I've spoken with so many people who say that they spend 2 to 3 hours a night in their standing frame, they use it like we would use the recliner. Dominican rehab has an FES hand bike, we are trying to work it out so Jerry can spend some time on that. SCI-FIT in pleasanton has the FES leg bike but not the hand portion. It would be great to incorporate the hand bike into Jerry's routine.

For the most part Jerry felt pretty good today, he had his friends Kayla and Colleen come for a visit after we got home from rehab. The visit was perfect timing as it allowed Dennis and I to be able to go to Jessica's Softball Game. For all you locals it was Soquel vs. SLV at SLV. SLV won 5 to 1, go Cougars! Jerry had a nice visit with his friends and it was equally as nice for us to get out.

The kittens are the most adorable things ever, however Dennis was not a happy camper to be tortured by them at 3 o'clock in the morning. They can be relentless and not so adorable when chewing on your face in the middle of the night. Sometime after 3 Dennis had enough and brought the little darlings to my bed, to share the love. If they were chewing on me in my sleep I was too tiered to notice. I woke up with all my fingers so it's all good.

I'll leave you with the images of the little darlings which still have not yet been named, feel free to throw some names out there, some of you have already had some very cute suggestions.