My Daily Routine

This is my first post other than the one’s that Barb wrote. She’s typing for me. It’s hard to type with one hand, focus on the screen, and deal with my limp arm, which I’m working on strengthening in OT. My days are pretty hectic with multiple therapies. I wake up and shower at 7:30am (with help from a nurse). Then I eat breakfast. After my morning events they take me down for physical therapy where I work walking and strengthening my arm. I also have a speech therapy where the teach me exercises I can do to strengthen my throat muscles to be able to swallow without chocking. Right now, every beverage needs a tsp. of thicket (a powdered substance to mix with a regular liquid to make it thicker and easier to swallow). I pretty much on the go from 715am until I go to bread. I get a break for lunch for a couple hours. When I’m not in therapy or eating I’m sleeping. I get tired easy, but push myself to work the right leg and arm. In this picture Troy thought he would place a joke on my Aunt Marion and I...chocking on a fish bone. I don't think I moved so fast across the room! When I reached him to initiate the heimlich, he laughed. Ya real funny!!! NOT! Everything he eats needs to be mushy or cut up really good.