Today Steve took his first WALK with a cane! It was a very emotional day for us as I videotaped him walking. He went about 12 ft. assisted by one therapist who helped him move the left foot forward. In order for him to raise the foot up, he had to lift up his hip to swing it forward. This was extremely [...]
GOOD NEWS! This afternoon Steve turned a corner in his stroke recovery!!!! He ate really well at dinner time after hardly eating anything at lunch. One of the goals the speech therapist set for him in his stroke rehabilitation is for him to eat 50% of his food and he did that at dinner. He [...]
One week after Steve’s stroke, he was experiencing pain in his sciatica nerve, right arm, shoulder and elbow. This was a result of being confined to bed for so long, and from using his arm to support his weight. On the weekend he was moved to the inpatient rehabilitation department of the hospital for intensive therapy. The next day the whole [...]
The third day after my husband, Steve, suffered a major right brain ischemic stroke, he was moved out of ICU and therapists came in to start speech and physical therapy. We found that the stroke paralyzed his left arm and leg, and affected his swallowing reflex. He choked on some Jello in ICU, so as a precaution a feeding tube was [...]
Today is the third day after my husband, Steve, suffered a major right brain stroke that affected the whole left side of his body which left his arm and leg paralyzed. This morning he looked a little better and they moved him out of ICU. They already started him on Physical Therapy (PT) and Speech & Language Therapy [...]
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