No more in-home OT!
I don't know if this is a good thing or not but they have taken Mike off the in-home OT schedule. The pain in his wrist is so bad they say they can't do anymore for him. Now until we can get him on Medicaid we have to do his therapy on the arm and hand ourselves. PT still comes twice a week but they want to send him to Outpatient therapy as soon as he can because they have reached a stand still also or so they say. I see a lot more things they could work with him on but they seem to think there isn't. Since he can walk to the bathroom and bedroom, get in and out of the car with the use of his hemi walker they think he is good to go! Do they not understand that he is a long way from being independent? He still has to have someone beside him when he is walking except when he is having those "I can do this on my own" days, which are very few and not to mention dangerous to him as he is not as steady as he would like to think he is. Why don't they teach him how to "walk" not drag his leg? Teach him how to bend over with out falling? Teach him how to get in and out of the truck without me lifting his leg for him? These are things they could do are they not? I think so.
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