7th Entry, 1-27-2009--Outpatient therapy day

This is a late entry as today was outpatient therapy day. No big news last night, we ordered out for Chinese food.

Notebook, Hat and Watch, remember those words.

No list this morning as I had to make it to the red line to have my blood taken at Spaulding for Coumadin reading this morning. We went early as I thought there may be a glitch. There was a slight paperwork problem (45 minute wait) when I got there, but I cleared it, got stuck with the pin and was out less 2 vials of blood.

We (My Mom and myself) went to lunch after my blood was taken. It was a little strange as I saw quite a few PT, OT, SLOP people and RNs from when I was an "inpatient". Most of them did a doubletake when they saw me; I guess they are not used to seeing former inpatient people coming to the cafeteria. It was a little funny.

Outpatient therapy: Today we mostly had evaluation and setting up tests. It was nice however to hear the therapists talk about working out, driving and going back to work as part of our discussion.

Last note: I am the one with the short term memory issue because of anoxia however my Mom lost/forgot where she left her gloves. This makes my Mom forgetting her gloves, her ear muffs and my sunglasses in the last week.

My 3 major problems: Short term memory, Stamina and Multi-tasking

SLP: Best part of SLP is that I did the blog on their request and forgot the piece of paper that I wrote down it's URL. Smart! Went thru eval-the farther I got into each test the tougher they were. The second to last test was the toughest.

PT: My strength (both literally and physically). Went thru my eval; need to work on getting back to normal. Felt like I have lost alot of my fitness in the last month. Took 6 minute walk test and thought I did ok also, strength is still generally good. My PT looks like she could be a sister of Anne Marie formerly of Mercury.

OT: This was interesting also. Ran thru a number of tests but started the eval by saying remember the 3 words, Notebook, Hat and Watch. After 5-10 minutes of evaluation the therapist asked me what were the 3 words she had asked me to remember. I could only come up with Notebook. When she said one was "Watch" I did remember her saying it which means it was "stuck" in my memory and was not retrieved. Hat I did not remember at all. Between OT and SLP they will work on ways to help this.

Note that I am home I need to finish home PT and bills.

Spoke to my Aunt Marilyn today, Cousin Lindsay last night, Marty Moyers, Margo M, Tom K and Amy last nite and today. The red line T was stopped for 35 minutes because of a prioblem between Davis and Porter so I called Amy.

That's it for this entry,

Brian