January 24th, 2009

The other day I started playing catch with Matt. I was tossing a balloon to Matt and he would catch it against his chest. He would get a hold of it then hand it back to me. I was tossing it in all different directions so he would actually move his whole arm to get it. He did this with me for a while.
On Monday he didn't want anything to do with the therapist so hopefully today he will participte more. He really likes showing them he can use a spoon all by himself! He's starting to become more aware of what's going on so he likes to do things himself and a lot of times he doesn't want to do childish things. This is good though. Things are healing more and more in his brain.
It looks like Matt will be doing speech, PT, and OT every Monday and Wednesdays. Now he'll have Fridays off from driving down the hill. Once Spencer gets back he will probably have Spencer back on Fridays and Sundays. All this therapy is really paying off.
The next thing his parents are looking into is getting him a new bed. One of his therapists said that Matt should be going through the process of getting his legs on the side of the bed, putting his feet on the ground and participating in moving his body to the wheel chair from the bed. Its important that he does not become dependent off of the sling or the wheel chair. So we have been having Matt do things by himself such as, brushing his teeth, shaving, brushing his hair, drinking water from a spoon, picking out what shirt he wants to wear, all these things are so good for his brain recovery. And it gives him control so he doesn't feel like we are doing everything for him.
A few more months of therapy and who knows where we will be by then. So exciting!!!