3/13

I have great news to report! Myra's therapy is going very well. Well enough that doctors are speaking with Myra about the possibility of transitioning into either a nursing home or HOME within the next couple of weeks!

Tuesday was her first bad day of therapy. Up until Tuesday she's been superwoman at therapy. Tuesday she had a bit of a problem walking and was running into the walls . Other than that she's been doing great with therapy. Myra's therapists are very enthusiastic about her progress. They did not plan on her to be walking this soon.

She is really working on gaining her strength and has been working her arm muscles. She started out with 2 pound weights and has graduated to 3, 4 and 6 pound hand weights. The point is to build endurance and to not hurt herself.

She is finding that her core stomach muscles are the weakest and she is doing special exercise to help strengthen the area.

She is hardly in bed at all, except to nap between therapy sessions. She spend a lot of time sitting in her chair.

The next 2 weeks will be CRUCIAL for Myra. It will be important that she stave's off infections as well as continues to progress nicely with her therapy. Her doctors will then decide if she needs to transition to a nursing home, or has enough strength to go right home.

Of course, she wants to go home but understands and accepts that she may need to transition to a nursing home first. She's 'fine' with that as long as the nursing home stay is therapy oriented.