Allison has
spent her first full week at home after her discharge from the Rehab Centre!
She had two outpatient speech therapy sessions at the Rehab Centre last week
and one music therapy session at home. Allison is making progress
(her music therapist hadn’t seen her for a couple of weeks and said she found
Allison’s progress “remarkable”). The other good news is that Allison is
confident that she can recover her ability to speak coherently, with the
benefits of therapy and time. Her music therapy is being bumped up to
twice a week, and so her regular weekly outpatient speech and home music therapy
sessions will total four in number. Otherwise, her weekly calendar is still a
work-in-progress, as we are waiting for a Home Visit from the Aphasia Centre of
Ottawa to find out what programs it has that are recommended for Allison. Once
we have the Aphasia Centre programs lined up, and add a couple of weekly
personal trainer sessions at the YMCA, she will have a fairly full agenda.
In the
meantime, Allison spends her time quite gainfully, playing the piano quite a
lot (her favourite activity it seems, and she is playing very well), working on
her speech and music therapy exercises, Sudoku, going for daily accompanied
neighbourhood walks, reading (although her vision has been impacted, and she is
going for an appointment with her optometrist soon to see if her prescription
is part of the issue), and catching quite a few naps during the day. When she
is well-rested, Allison’s energy and sociability are reminiscent of the
pre-surgery Allison, and if you met her casually to just exchange hellos, you
would never know anything has been amiss.
This coming
week Allison and Bob are travelling to Western Canada to visit
family, including their new grandson Blake. When Allison is
back in Ottawa in mid-November, we are hoping that her full weekly agenda will
be soon be in place. Subject to needing time for lots of rest at various points
during the day, and getting through her scheduled activities, it will be great
if she can have the opportunity to benefit from social interactions with
friends.
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