Jack's at Home!
Hi all
Jack is now 5 weeks in rehab and 7 weeks this Tuesday post stroke. He had a mixed week starting well at the RCH but then slowing down and becoming disinterested in the therapy. This was not unexpected and we have taken him out of hospital campus living and back to home with day trips to the RCH planned from here on in- starting this week on tues and thursday. He has brightened already and has had a good weekend. The family is delighted at his full time return. We are playing lots of interactive language games at home as well as lots of sport. Jack is enjoying this approach much more than the wrote learning of words and phrases in speech therapy sessions. He is enjoying some movies especially the ones he is familiar with which should enable language acquisition as well. Jack managed one hour of busy play on a futsal court on Thursday and while I was puffing round the court he managed better than I- so much for the early fatigue the doctors predicted. We even got to mass as a family for the first time since the stroke on the weekend- boy were Wendy and I the proudest and most grateful parents on the block.
Jack Wendy and I went out to Woodford on Friday to meet a young stroke survivor now 22yrs who had a stroke at 16 yrs affecting similar areas in the brain to Jack. He was a delightful, eloquent and positive young man getting on with life who tells us in retrospect he can see positive things the stroke has delivered after many years of hard work. We were all comforted greatly by his language skills which he assured us have taken a long time to return.
Jack was back at school on Friday for his second brief visit which was very successful.
so all in all things are good and we feel some normality is returning...
love and best wishes
Tom and Wendy
25.02.2008.
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