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Thursday, July 01, 2004

Signs of improvement



Today was a "measurement day" in OT. She's been home about a month. She has improved on everything they measured but most dramatically in the amount of reach of her left arm. She could lift it about 60 degrees when we came home, and she can raise it around 100 degrees now. She's done a lot of hard work to make that improvement. Her grip is stronger in both hands. She has better coordination in her fingers. And she still has a lot of work to do.

Her OT told her that he thought she could go to 3 days per week. We're going to do PT and OT both on MWF now, leaving TTh free. I think we will take that time to see about speech therapy at Truman. Or maybe we'll just live. Nah, I'm pretty sure we'll do the speech.