Aaron had a good day today in every way.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When my sister, Deb, and I arrived at Magee this morning, we were confronted by\u00a0Aaron’s\u00a0Respitory Therapist who\u00a0told us that he was doing the trach collar (he was off the vent) and fell asleep doing it!\u00a0 So, he was still in bed and we didn’t want to wake him, so we didn’t go into his room.\u00a0\u00a0When he finally woke up, we found out he had managed the collar\u00a0 for 2 1\/2 hours!\u00a0\u00a0 Now they could\u00a0get him out of bed and ready for the day.\u00a0\u00a0 He wasn’t interested in the breakfast that was served (what, Aaron, you don’t like cold, rubbery eggs??) so he drank a chocolate Boost.\u00a0 By that time, the rest of today’s visitors showed up (Aaron’s Aunt Den, Uncle Ed and Uncle Charlie).\u00a0\u00a0 After everyone fussed all over Aaron, he had to leave his room to go to Physical Therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
PT\u00a0was scheduled for\u00a011:00 this morning,\u00a0and it \u00a0actually started ON TIME!\u00a0(That’s a sure way to make Aaron\u00a0 happy!)\u00a0 The therapist worked out both his arms, then gave him some electrical stimulation on his left arm.\u00a0 That is amazing to watch; when the electricity moves through the electrodes into his arm, you can see his muscles tighten up.\u00a0\u00a0 The therapist rested his arm on a board and when the electricity was sent to his arm, his arm would move across the board.\u00a0\u00a0 Aaron can feel the movement, however, at this time, cannot initiate it on his own.\u00a0 (But I have faith that he’ll\u00a0be able to do that one day on his own!\u00a0)\u00a0<\/p>\n
After therapy, we ALL went back to his room and visited for a little while.\u00a0 About 12:15, lunch was served and he ate every drop of it.\u00a0 He started out with Chicken Gumbo, then had a hot turkey sandwich and green beans.\u00a0 I thought I was being slick by giving him a\u00a0 bit of green beans with every bite of turkey, thinking he wasn’t realizing it, but he called me out\u00a0on it…..but I continued to do it anyway and he continued to eat it!\u00a0 \u00a0 After he was done eating, he sort of kicked us all out because he wanted to relax and watch some football.\u00a0(And I guess we were getting on his nerves!) \u00a0We went across the street to eat and when we returned, to our surprise, the Respiratory Therapist said he had asked to be put back on the trach collar and when I walked into his room, he was sound asleep again (sitting in his wheelchair).\u00a0 We didn’t wake him and this time he\u00a0stayed off the vent for 2 hours!\u00a0\u00a0 When he woke up he was surprised that two hours had passed.\u00a0 He also said he thought today’s time off the vent was so much easier than in times past.\u00a0 That was great to hear, because we all know it is a struggle for him.\u00a0\u00a0 So, 4 1\/2 hours totally off the vent today.\u00a0 How good is that?????<\/p>\n
Aunt Den fed him supper (BBQ chicken, baked beans, cherry jello) while I turned on his laptop and read him comments from the blog and facebook.\u00a0 (He really enjoys that, so please continue to comment!\u00a0)\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Aaron was “full of himself” today;\u00a0 he\u00a0harrassed\u00a0me every opportunity he got,\u00a0 shared his sarcastic wit with all of us and it was WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n
We left Magee today when they were getting ready to put\u00a0Aaron to bed.\u00a0 He was ANXIOUSLY awaiting Jaime’s arrival after her weekend away.\u00a0\u00a0 I wish I could have been there to see that\u00a0smile he gets when she walks into the room.\u00a0\u00a0But I am sure both Jaime and Aaron were glad I wasn’t there!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 So, yep, it was a GREAT day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aaron had a good day today in every way.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When my sister, Deb, and I arrived at Magee this morning, we were confronted by\u00a0Aaron’s\u00a0Respitory Therapist who\u00a0told us that he was doing the trach collar (he was off the vent) and fell asleep doing it!\u00a0 So, he was still in bed and we didn’t want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}