Alex’s First Monday

Everyone is doing great.  Odd for a Monday, some might say :)

Alex saw the occupational therapist this morning.  No, he’s not looking for a job… they just call them that.  Not really sure why.  She says he’s doing great for someone his age.  He can use Excel and Word as well as a calculator and shows good use of tools. Ok, seriously, she says he’s doing great. He has good reflexes and ‘positioning’ and isn’t showing any thing that would cause concern.  She did caution us that kids his age have a tendency to do very well and then fall off and do poorly at things like eating for a while.  She’ll check him again and then show us some therapies we can use to help out at home.

He ate very well again and was quite awake afterwards. He’s looking around, which is very cool.  They are also starting to do the ‘discharge’ tests like hearing.  That doesn’t mean he’ll be discharged soon, but since he’s off the IV and the antibiotics, they can start getting them wrapped up. 

We still aren’t sure when he’ll be released, but our first concern is making sure he’s really ready to come home.