This weekend was low key for Dennis. Brooks doesn't do much rehabilitation over the weekend so Dennis got to rest up before he starts his first week of intense rehabilitation.
On Sunday he got in his wheelchair and wheeled himself around the floor for the first time. I will post a video of him when I get home tonight. I even caught him flirting with a few nurses at the nurses station. :-) We spoke to a physical therapist on Sunday who told us to expect to be here for about six weeks so Dennis and I decided to set some goals. His first goal is stand up on his own with no assistance by the end of the week. His second goal is to be home by the middle of August. A funny story for all of you who know how much Dennis hates to get up in the morning. Brooks is a place that is very strict. They bring in breakfast at 7:30 in the morning and then you usually start therapy between 8 or 8:30. A patient care tech came in at 8:45 one morning and freaked out because Dennis was still sleeping. She couldn't believe that he had not eaten breakfast nor was he dressed for rehabilitation. I told her "good luck" getting him up and if she has a secret to getting him up she better let me know. On Monday, Dennis was put on the late schedule meaning he didn't have have therapy until 9:30 in the morning. I guess the patient care tech didn't have much luck getting him up either. ;-)
Monday was Dennis's first full day of therapy. Timothy is his full time physical therapist and had Dennis standing up with minimal assistance on the parallel bars. Dennis asked him what was the length of time that he was expected to be at Brooks and Timothy told Dennis he expects him to be at Brooks for 3-4 weeks, but could better assess him after two or three days. He also told Dennis that he won't exactly be 100% when he leaves Brooks, but he will probably need a walker and have to do some outpatient therapy for six months. Another funny story about Dennis was that he had to do recreational therapy today. They took him to a room where they were doing arts and crafts. He unfortunately didn't get to participate in the arts and crafts because he had a doctors appointment. I was really hoping he was going to paint me a picture to put on the fridge. :-) Dennis just rolled his eyes when I told him he should have helped me scrapbook all the those weekends instead of making fun of me. :-) Hopefully, next time he gets to the play the Wii instead of arts and crafts.
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