Six Months at Home

Today marks the six month anniversary of Tania coming home from Craig Hospital. During this time we have seen considerable progress in spite of the set back from the vertebrae compression fracture in May. This afternoon we had lunch outside on the patio at a restaurant in Morrison and then took a drive into the mountains up to Evergreen. Tania does best in the car with her seat tilted all the way back to take the pressure off the tender vertebrae. I made a stop along the way to allow her to get out and observe the sights and sounds of a mountain stream.

Her voice is much improved and she can now engage in conversations both in person and on the phone. Her speech therapist meets with her once a week on Wednesday mornings and gives her assignments to complete at home with the home care aides. She now has four different home care aides that are trained on how to best help her; and that know where things are in her kitchen. We are meeting with another aide this Thursday that is just starting with ResCare. This past week we ordered her reading glasses and have been able to discontinue two prescription medications.

We are trusting that in the next six months we will continue to experience additional improvement in balance, endurance and cognitive abilities. Thanks for your prayers, visits, phone calls and encouragement.

Rollie

Road Trip to Sidney, NE

This past week I was accompanied on a two day business trip to Sidney, NE by Tania and our friend, Cathy, (from PA who is staying with us for a week). This is the first time that I have had a business trip to my home town and my brother, sister and their spouses joined us for dinner. Tania rode part of the 200 miles laying on the back seat and the remainder with the passenger seat tilted all the way back. Although her back hurt a little, she very much enjoyed the trip.

Rollie

Labor Day Trip to the Denver Zoo

Today was a busy day as the home care aides were given a day off and Tania and I went shopping at a kitchen appliance store, joined family for lunch at a golf course club house and then visited the Denver Zoo. It was great fun to see our granddaughter observe the animals at the zoo with her two cousins who joined us from Pueblo. Tania's stamina was better than I expected for the five hour outing.

Last Friday I took Tania to a different eye doctor that we have been seeing since we came to Colorado. He said the distance contact was being put in the wrong eye...so now I am taking out her left contact on a daily basis. I think she is able to see a little better, but we still have a long way to go for vision (and for balance).

Rollie