Dennis has finished one full week of therapy and we can see the strength coming back to his legs day by day. The left leg is still weak, but has more movement in it this week than we have seen in the past month. Dennis had a very hard week of therapy so we decided on our new version of date night at the hospital. I brought him some dinner, and grabbed a DVD player. Well it didn't work out like we had wanted, but so is our life at this moment. I finally got Dennis an appointment at the Mayo clinic on August 31st. The hospital has a transverse myeletis specialist so we are very eager to talk to her about Dennis's prognosis. We are also trying to see if his neurologist now will do a plasma exchange therapy. Plasma exchange therapy is where they remove part of Dennis's blood and replace it with blood that has stronger antibodies. It is not widely used in the United States but is used more in Europe and Japan. Stronger antibodies are suppose to help with Dennis's rehab and make him progress faster than he would with just using high doses of steriods.
Dennis was also asked to be a part of a promo video for Brooks so he was very excited to be participating today. They had him working out on bench press so everyone in Jax look for it on TV. I will try to get a copy once it is finished. ;-)
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