Day 71 - April 25, 2007 Wednesday

Lynn is not coming in until around 5:30 pm today. She is getting the house ready for the remodeling. Her mother is coming over to help her. They will be starting on it tomorrow. Arlyne (daughter) came and stayed with Terry until Lynn gets there. He ate a good breakfast today but did not eat that well at lunch time. OT and PT started around 10:30 in his bed. They worked on both hands and his right leg. He does some squeezing exercises with his hands. He also uses some weights (3 lb hand held on the right and 1 lb wrapped around his left). They do stretching exercises with his leg. They bend the leg in the air. Then Terry pushes against them and straightens the leg. They also bent the leg at the knee and tried to have him hold it up with his foot on the bed. At first it kept falling over. Terry was finally able to hold it up for about 10 seconds before it fell. He was also able to slow it down some when it fell over. He is slowly starting to get the use of his leg muscles back. Jimmy (son) came to visit. They walked Terry around the nursing home and listened to some gospel music (a group was entertaining in the cafeteria). Lynn arrived around 5:30 pm. Lynn was going to stop at Walmart on the way but she was bringing Terry his dinner - crab legs. Arlyne went to Walmart for them. Lynn and Terry talked about the remodeling at the house and the special trip they are taking tomorrow. She went home around 9:30 pm.