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Friday Greetings from Red Wing, MN!
Jake is continuing to make great strides with his personal social, emotional and physical development skills. Brace number #3 was removed today and he had an opportunity to wear two new tennis shoes for the first time during PT- and engage in several PT activities. These activities included the following:[...]
Jake has now been at the Red Wing Health Care Facility for two weeks, and he has made great progress in this transitional care unit. Within five days at this new location two out of his three braces were removed and they have progressed greatly with PT/OT/Speech and Recreational Therapy. As you can see from the photo gallery section on the Post Hope site, Jake's PT accomplishments are making great strides. OT is working closely with him - with range of motion in his left arm and hand as he has about 50% functionalty wirh it, and working on daily life skills of dressing himself and daily hygiene, sequencing of step by step procedures for keeping himself safe, and good decision making choices. Speech is working on comprehensions skills, sequencing of playback of stories told, and regaining memories. Recreational Therapy allows for him to join in on a group social setting to venture out into the community, play games, trivia, ice cream socials, etc. And the Nero Doctor is working closely motitoring Jacob on his TBI condition. Jake has definite long term and short term memory losses and needs repeated instructions and reinforcement to guide him with daily living skills and activities that come second nature to all of us. This is why Jake will have 100% support from Jeff and I to help aid in his continued TBI and PT/OT healing and guidance towards a life of independence.[...]
Day 120 Since Jake’s Accident, Day 82 at Bethesda Hospital and Day 1 at Red Wing Health Care Community.
It has been a whirlwind of healing and progression the past 10 days for Jacob. He has reached level four for his food stage with eating. This means Jake is eating the same food you and I would eat. He has also transitioned to normal liquids where before he was taking liquids that were nectar thick. Getting to this stage now allows Jake to take all of his medication orally and in pill form- instead of through his stomach tube which is called a PEG. On July 30th the doctor gave the OK to remove Jake’s PEG as he no longer needs the feeding tube- YAE![...]
