Week of July 16, 2007

Mon. At therapy today, David had Terry transfer to the table by himself, scoot around it, and transfer back into his chair. It's amazing to see Terry's progress in just 4 days. He did the whole process in just 20 minutes! Tue. We went to see the hand specialist today. He wants Terry to WORK that hand. He also scheduled a nerve test(EMG) to measure Terry's injuries.At therapy, Terry got a new splint to try to bend his wrist backwards. He can't bend it back right now, limiting his function. At water therapy, they were impressed with his progress. Wed. We made more festival purchases and preparations. I'm getting a little nervous about the festival. Thu.Beth and Jeffrey came this morning to help with final preparations for the festival. They stayed for a few hours, then had to leave. I kept working, and finally stopped around 7:00 PM. I'll do the rest in the morning. Fri. It's festival day! Since there were a couple of people here to help for the festival, Terry felt safe to try transferring to his chair(with watchers).He did GREAT !!! He went to the festival to help in the set-up. It was good to have him there, keeping track of many facets of the operation that I had forgotten. He stayed until about 6:30, then Tony took him home.Tony and Grant were SO much help!! It was a fairly busy evening, though. I missed Terry's experience! Sat.We had a long day planned! I got up at 6:30 to be there by 8:00. Jimmy is going to stay with Terry, with various other family coming later. We had plenty of people to help at the festival, but not much business for HOURS. Finally, around 6:30, we began to get busy. We kept hopping after that. Fortunately, I have several family members to help me, too, as well as a couple of GOOD workers. It went well, and I was home by 11:00. Sun. There's a community church service at the festival today. Terry is going with me to that, and to spend the day. There was a radio station there(88.1), and they wanted to interview Terry, so we did that. The business was fairly slow, so our workers handled it while I was busy with Terry. When it came time to shut down, again Terry was invaluable help! There are so MANY things I don't think of!! I thank God for Terry's clear mind OFTEN!!!! We got loaded up and came home. Thomas pulled the trailer.