Update #43, June 5th

friday, june 5, 2009

#43 Update, June 5th
Another week of progress, Sean read Are You My Mother by Dr Seuss. He read it slowly but surely. He continues to strengthen his grasp in both hands and his core muscles for balance and walking. He always takes the harder choice whenever we ask him which challenge he'd like to accomplish and works hard at accomplishing whatever is given to him to do. He stamina needs work so we will need to walk him twice a day and a little longer each time. He has a full beard and mustache; you'd hardly recognize him. I think he looks quite handsome but I am prejudiced. When he agrees, and we are hoping that will be very soon, we will post some recent photographs on line. He colorizes all the parts and puts the items together when working with them. When given a task he starts it pretty quickly now, so the processing time is a lot shorter which is very encouraging. He misses playing with his peg tube, it is almost completely healed. For those of you that have sent him cards & words of encouragement; we read them with him as soon as they come in. I'll ask him if he remembers you and he'll say "yes", sometimes he says "no" but that is not to say he won't remember later. Thank you to everyone for your continued prayers, warm thoughts, words of encouragement and being our as well as his friend. It means the world to us and helps those long days we have sometimes. He is a joy and very up, he hasn't gotten upset or angry since he came home which is wonderful. Somehow that lets me know that I am doing my job correctly with respect and love.
posted by paul andrea knott at 10:31 pm