Two for Tuesday

Another beautiful day overlooking the Boston Garden. Yes. The Boston Garden. Tim had a pretty decent day. As I write, he and Amy are winding down watching some sort of intellectual film I'm not familiar with. It's called "Something About Mary" and has apparently won several awards.

Anyway, the day started off pretty well. Dr. O'Connor noted that Tim's coughs are much stronger, indicating that his abs are strengthening. Good news.

I shaved Tim today - two weeks of beard. No blood, but we won't be waiting that long again before the next one. His face feels much better under the brace now.

In PT, Tim worked today on transferring from bed to chair, again requiring a lot of arm strenghth. OT was also about preparing for transfers with some specific arm strength exercises. He also worked on preparing his voice for voice recognition software. Our case manager stopped by and had meetings with both Amy and Tim. The whole therapy team will meet weekly to discuss and evaluate Tim's progress.

Tim received several greetings from friends today, and they were spread out over the course of the day. A bouquet of flowers from a cuz, a letter from a fan in Housatonic, and two packages from West Stockbridge and Deerfield (wow!). He is feeling the love. Thank you!!

Visitors continue to brighten the room - Sam Schrager stopped in for almost a half hour, along with Cathy and Harold after his Northeastern University Orientation. Uncle John came by this evening as well.

Tonight is our last night in town. We'll leave Wednesday after putting Tim to bed and head back to West Stockbridge. Amy and I will then figure out what our routine will be. While we're out of town, Uncle John will stop by daily, and of course we'll call a few times a day for updates. This will be hard, but we are very confident in the staff to look after Tim, and he is comfortable to be on his own now. He'll probably handle it better than us!