New Tricks
After a restful and pleasurable birthday weekend, I am back home with Chester and it was a wonderful relief to see him again after three days. Jaime took beautiful care of Chester, and by all reports it was a good weekend full of deep sleep and gaining strength.
When I say that every day is a learning experience around here, I mean it most literally. We are, as a team, constantly figuring out new ways of doing the most mundane tasks, systems and rituals to create rythym within the hectic pace, and theraputic techniques and technologies to assist Chester's body in healing and comfort. It is a constant process, both in refining what is working and being inventive to meet new challenges and symptoms as they arise.
Over the weekend, Chester got a new theraputic technique from his Occupational Therapist, June. Once a day, he submerges his right hand into ice cold water for five sequential periods of about three seconds each. This simple cold water plunge has helped reduce the swelling in his hand significantly in the last few days. His right leg and arm are now just about "normal" size, which is a big victory after three months of chronic swelling.
It is just past 8 pm and Chester is snoring away. We will be up early tomorrow for a 8:45 physical therapy session and then right into speech therapy at 10:15. I am very grateful for the rehabilitation professionals who continue to offer Chester so much support, information, and guidance as he constantly meets his own resilient edge of resistence, every day discovering what he is capable of and what are his challenges. May we all have such strong support and competent care as we meet our own edges in life.
When I say that every day is a learning experience around here, I mean it most literally. We are, as a team, constantly figuring out new ways of doing the most mundane tasks, systems and rituals to create rythym within the hectic pace, and theraputic techniques and technologies to assist Chester's body in healing and comfort. It is a constant process, both in refining what is working and being inventive to meet new challenges and symptoms as they arise.
Over the weekend, Chester got a new theraputic technique from his Occupational Therapist, June. Once a day, he submerges his right hand into ice cold water for five sequential periods of about three seconds each. This simple cold water plunge has helped reduce the swelling in his hand significantly in the last few days. His right leg and arm are now just about "normal" size, which is a big victory after three months of chronic swelling.
It is just past 8 pm and Chester is snoring away. We will be up early tomorrow for a 8:45 physical therapy session and then right into speech therapy at 10:15. I am very grateful for the rehabilitation professionals who continue to offer Chester so much support, information, and guidance as he constantly meets his own resilient edge of resistence, every day discovering what he is capable of and what are his challenges. May we all have such strong support and competent care as we meet our own edges in life.
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