Living in the Basement

After spending the first few days back home mostly in the basement because of the shower, bedroom and walkout exit, Tania is now enjoying spending approximately half of the day on the first floor in the kitchen, office and family room. Until today the transition from the basement to the first floor was a wheelchair ride on a portable ramp off the patio, across four sheets of plywood on the grass, down the neighbor's driveway, up the side walk and into our garage. Several inches of snow that fell last night made this tranistion from the basement to the kitchen unworkable. However, plan B worked as Tania walked up and down the stairs today with balance assistance and by grabbing hand rails on both sides of the stairwell.

She continues to improve and is having excellent social interaction with the family and friends who come to see her. The medical insurance has currently designated her as home bound and three therapists are coming to our home two or three times per week. As the weather warms up I am certain that she is going to want to spend time cleaning (or directing others) up the yard from the long winter.

Rollie