Victory Today - Dad passes 2nd PT Evaluation!

We had an awesome day today!  Dad just looked great today when I took him for his therapy sessions.  You know that he has been concerned about his pending PT evaluation.  Today he had it and passed!  So they have assigned him another 30 day period of therapy (Medicare is strict about their policies of therapy - if dad doesn't show a certain amount of progress every 30 days, they can deny coverage of the treatment).  So dad was thrilled to have that behind him.  Our goal now for this next 30 day period is to get dad doing as many "board transfers" from bed to chair and chair to bed as we can.  This not only strengthens his trunk muscles, but helps him to be more mobile and in the eyes of therapists- proves he is getting stronger.  Also, they want to work on dad building back his muscle mass.  He was so depressed when he looked in the mirror today at therapy while doing exercises and saw that all his muscles were gone.  He is going to do some lightweights at home in bed and in his chair to work on that.  We have some other goals as well and we'll be working hard at home to help him reach them.  

Dad was sad to see the Olympics be over - he had really watched all of them this year.  He was our official newsman when it came to results - we'd call him for the report.  Dad has been feeling well - blood pressure stable and he is still drinking only water!   Dad has one more day of therapy Friday and then it's off for Labor day weekend - they are looking forward to going  to mom's family's Labor Day breakfast & all day picnic. So I will try to post later this week. . . sorry for the delay this past week - my laptop was down!