Well, our special day. William is always up early on days that he has a trip or Sunday. He is so excited about church. He gets up at 4AM 6AM I finally say please we don't need to get up until 7AM. But, it is great to see such excitement. He is ready for the service and the bible study. At the beginning ....5 months ago...WIlliam complained about not understanding the sermon and not understanding the bible study lesson. BUt, now he is able to participate and know the lesson. I read the lesson to him and we discuss it the week before. Actually, we did the study for next Sunday today. This just means that I will go over it again before next Sunday. Or I will have the caretaker go over it with him. We did manage to watch some tennis and a movie on the TV. Recently, William has enjoyed eating eggs and bacon and toast for dinner. He seems to eat one meal a day and that is what he is hungry for.

I am concerned that at our YMCA they have had budget cuts due to the recession. A good friend of ours was let go. She was the senior coordinator. She was awesome. We miss her... I doubt that they will have more trips in the near future. I guess that I will have to just come up with some on my own.

William managed to walk by himself in the water. I was complaining that I was not getting any swimming in.. So he said go on and do your swimming. I didn't feel comfortable leaving him. So I just sort of swam close by. He was actually able to move himself around in the water. I usually guide him. But, I need to try to let him become more independant. We had met another stroke survivor that was in the water by himself...with just a float under his weak side. William was inspired and said that he could do that.

I can see improvement. It is just slow. This stroke just requires lots of patience.

I scheduled an appointment to see about a walkaide. I found the site on the internet and somebody called me for a free evaluation ...So on the 15th. we will see on the evaluatioin goes. I will learn more about it then.