Wii physical therapy

Today's been a busy day for Ryan. He declined having the nurses give him a bath, but asked me if I could instead bathe him. It took about twice as long, & twice as much work for him, lifting his arms & rolling from side to side, but we managed to get him all cleaned up. =) After that he went down to the rehab gym (for the first) time for physical therapy. The therapist had him playing some games on a Wii! He did a soccer game where you use your feet to move your character's head to the left & right hit the ball, & then played some bowling. He did really well on both... well, he did about as well on the bowling as he does in real life, anyway. They're saying that hopefully as early as tomorrow they'll be moving him down to a bed in the rehabilitation center here in the hospital. It's really nice down there, so we're super excited about that.

After physical therapy he came back up & had a short nap, but was woken up because they wanted to remove his NG tube. Yay! I know that he was pretty excited to have that taken out. Next Speech came back in & reevalutaed his swallowing & speaking. He's still quite soft spoken, & still having some trouble with really thin liquids (like water), so she wants ENT to come in & take a look at him. She said that because he was intubated for so long that his vocal chords may just be a little askew, which would explain both of the problems that he's having. Even with those issues, she upped the foods that he's allowed: no more baby food mush! He can start having ground types of meats & chopped up vegetable/fruit sides. His dinner tonight should be based off of these new allowances. Ryan's napping now, but OT will be in later to work with him some.

He is literally getting better & better everyday, & we know that in no time he'll be out of here! Tomorrow I have to head back into Watertown to try & get some things taken care of, but I should have another update for all of you the day after that.