Can you believe September is almost gone. That just makes it that much sooner till we get to go home. Today in therapy we started learning how to bump up on stairs, just in case we need to go somewhere, where there are a few stairs. Much harder than it seems. Lots of muscle power and none of it is Nicks. We also started learning how to lift Nick from the floor to his chair, just in case he falls out of his chair. Nick is starting to learn how to lift himself from the floor to his chair, thank goodness we got to start with a half way mark down. He had a wooden box to go down to that was half way from his chair to the floor.
Nick also worked on the EFS bike. It has electrodes that are connected to his legs and his hips, it has a motor in it, and it forces his legs to peddle the bike. We found that with Nick doing this excercise, it forces his body to do disreflexia. Meaning one side of his body starts sweating from the top of his head down to his injury site, and forces his blood pressure to rise quite significant, but the other side just stays normal. It is really strange.Since then Nick has been very tired.
That is really interesting with the way he responds to the electrodes on the bike. We're so excited for you all to come home and see all the hard work that everyone has done. We're all counting down the days right with ya!
ReplyDelete