Kate's progress
Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 8:49 pm
I got a PM tday, inquiring after how things were going with Kate's recovery. I was embarrassed to realise that i haven't been keeping people up to date.
So, herewith, the text of my reply, plus a few other things:
So, herewith, the text of my reply, plus a few other things:
Actually, things are getting better - gradually and slowly, but better. Sorry i didn't do an update or two.
When she started with physical/occupational therapy (three times a week until last week), they rated her condition/capabilities at 13 on whatever scale they use.
Last week they re-rated her at twenty-eight.
If the scale goes to a hundred, this is Good.
If the scale goes to a thousand or is open-ended or exponential, it's still Not Bad.
Anyway - she has gotten to the point that she can {with difficulty and using a walker} walk the forty-some feet from her bedroom to the outside door instead of having to be pushed in a wheelchair. This is Good, because there are four doors to pass through and two of them - the bedroom door and the garage door - are too narrow for the wheelchair, necessitating standing and moving around anyway.
Her mother just gifted her with an electric-powered recliner/lift chair, which is much more comfortable than the wheelchair, and make sit a lot easier for her to stand up.
She got a brace for her bad leg - of the type that those of us from the last polio generation were all-too-familiar with - which is part of why she can walk so much more.
I'll be posting this, plus some other stuff, on the board.
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She's getting better.
I, OTOH, am perpetually on the edge of falling apart, what with my long-standing clinical depression, worrying about Kate, and cabin fever, since i really can't be away from the house for long at a time.
More about that, too.