August 17, 2017 9:30 pm
The best thing that happened today is that ... well, let's give a little background. After Josh got his temporary VP drain, he had a catheter sticking out of the back of his head. His helmet was too tight and didn't cover it, so he got a new helmet. Mary asked Liz (a young girl at the reception desk who was a good artist) to graffiti the helmet any way she wanted. She was excited to do it! Mary's only request was that Josh's name be across the front. Here is what Josh ended up with:
Eat your heart out, RJ!
We had videos of Josh in PT, but they were too big to upload. The therapist lined up cones and Josh had to walk around the cones, obstacle-course style. Then she put bean bags beside the cones. He had to pick up the bags along the way. It was really hard for him to bed over and maintain balance.
Before ST, Mary asked Josh what a straw was. He searched for the word and came up with "wine funnel." So in ST, Debra worked on having him re-learn the words for: cup, ball, pen, etc. She would pick up the item then repeat it's name over and over. He was good up to about 5 items, but he got confused after that. Then she worked on nose, ear, chin, eye, neck, hair. Most of the time she had to make the sound of the first letter for him to come up with the word. She suggested we do this with Josh every day. Yeah...he will enjoy that as much as he enjoyed doing homework in high school.
Lastly, in neuropsych today, Josh tried to do mazes. In short, he doesn't do them very well.
The best thing that happened today is that ... well, let's give a little background. After Josh got his temporary VP drain, he had a catheter sticking out of the back of his head. His helmet was too tight and didn't cover it, so he got a new helmet. Mary asked Liz (a young girl at the reception desk who was a good artist) to graffiti the helmet any way she wanted. She was excited to do it! Mary's only request was that Josh's name be across the front. Here is what Josh ended up with:
Eat your heart out, RJ!
We had videos of Josh in PT, but they were too big to upload. The therapist lined up cones and Josh had to walk around the cones, obstacle-course style. Then she put bean bags beside the cones. He had to pick up the bags along the way. It was really hard for him to bed over and maintain balance.
Before ST, Mary asked Josh what a straw was. He searched for the word and came up with "wine funnel." So in ST, Debra worked on having him re-learn the words for: cup, ball, pen, etc. She would pick up the item then repeat it's name over and over. He was good up to about 5 items, but he got confused after that. Then she worked on nose, ear, chin, eye, neck, hair. Most of the time she had to make the sound of the first letter for him to come up with the word. She suggested we do this with Josh every day. Yeah...he will enjoy that as much as he enjoyed doing homework in high school.
Lastly, in neuropsych today, Josh tried to do mazes. In short, he doesn't do them very well.
That helmet is AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteHa Josh been showing more of his original, patent attitude toward schoolwork? 😂❤️
Liz knocked that helmet out of the ballpark. Joshua is going to love it.
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