Our New Life……For Now

When something tragic happens in your life, everything gets turned upside down. Those first few weeks I felt like I was in a daze. It was the weirdest feeling. Everyday seemed to mesh into one big long horrible nightmare. Now that David is on the Rehab floor we have got a pretty good schedule down. This is David's day…

• Between 7:30am and 8:00am he wakes up
• 8:30am someone comes and works on his knee
• 9:00am he eats breakfast
• 10:00am -10:45am Physio
• 11:30am - 12:00pm Occupational Therapy
• 12:30pm Lunch
• 2:00pm someone comes and gets him up to go walking for a bit
• 2:30pm - 3:00pm Speech therapy
• 3:00pm-3:30pm Recreational Therapy (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday)
• 5:45pm Dinner
• Then we usually watch tv or play a game before he goes to bed at 10:00pm or somewhere around there

So needless to say David is pretty busy during the day and by the time evening comes around he is pretty tired and ready for bed. :) I'm glad our lives have kind of calmed down for the most part. He has not had a bad day yet and for that I am so grateful. He is always so positive and so easy going, which makes it really easy to be around him. All the nurses love him and want to be his nurse. One thing that David did when he was on the Trauma floor, that made me laugh, was each patient has a nurses call bell that they can buzz whenever they need something. Well one day David buzzed the nurse because he had to go to the bathroom, so the nurse came and helped him go. Well then 10 mins later he buzzed it again and told the nurse that he had to go to the bathroom, I said to him "David you just went to the bathroom, do you really need to go again?" He said "Well no, but I want to be turned on to my side" I said "Well then why did you buzz the nurse and say you had to go to the bathroom?" He said "Well if I say I need to go to the bathroom they come faster!" Well that got us all laughing. :) He defiantly has his good sense of humour. Well, hope you all enjoy the blog. Thanks for reading. 

Love,

JP