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Hi all,
Just to keep you all in the loop, Barrie was alert but also very tired today on both visits.
The Pysio had got at him before both visits and these gentle exercises clearly knocks him out. Having had a long chat with the very nice French Pysio, she explained that she is trying to get some mobility back in his arms, hands and shoulders. He needs to start to slowly moving again as the poor chap has just been just laying there for well over a month now. She explained that he can not raise his arms yet above shoulder height and he moans about pain in his shoulders.
I have told him "No Pain No Gain" and that he needs to slowly extend himself during these important sessions. He nodded!!
Pysio can not yet attempt any lower body exercises until he has had another x-ray, to establish if exercising his legs is safe to do at this moment in time.
Anyway, this twice a day pysio is defiantly knocking him out. I have told him that the more he sleeps the quicker the time passes and not to try to keep awake when I am there on a visit. He therefore feels relaxed about nodding off and waking up again at leisure when I am around. This gives me a bit of time to chat the nurses up!!
I tried to take in my laptop and a couple of DVD's for him to watch, he seemed to like the idea of that, however my request was rejected bt the Nurses, I tried to ask a few different ones, however they all sang the same tune! "C'est par possible" oh well worth a try.
I then asked about getting him a radio, as he would love to get Radio 5 live or Talk Sport on the go, to my surprise the nurse agreed! All I now need is something that will actually pick up UK radio station.
Any radio buffs out there got any good ideas, please let me know.
Dad still indicating that he was a little about being cold, however other than that he is being very brave and not whinging about anything else, I ask him if there is anything I can do or if he needs the nurse however we both know that there is not much that anybody can really do for him right now and he realises that and indicates that to me.
We both know that 'time' and good care is the only thing that can help him.
Sometimes he looks over at his alphabet board and therefore has a question for me. Tonight we managed easily to spell out "HANSEN". He wanted to know when he would be off to see Steve Hansen the surgeon from Paris, so that was good news that he is already thinking about his next move. I told him, hopefully within the next month, this hopefully is the truth.
Just to keep you all in the loop, Barrie was alert but also very tired today on both visits.
The Pysio had got at him before both visits and these gentle exercises clearly knocks him out. Having had a long chat with the very nice French Pysio, she explained that she is trying to get some mobility back in his arms, hands and shoulders. He needs to start to slowly moving again as the poor chap has just been just laying there for well over a month now. She explained that he can not raise his arms yet above shoulder height and he moans about pain in his shoulders.
I have told him "No Pain No Gain" and that he needs to slowly extend himself during these important sessions. He nodded!!
Pysio can not yet attempt any lower body exercises until he has had another x-ray, to establish if exercising his legs is safe to do at this moment in time.
Anyway, this twice a day pysio is defiantly knocking him out. I have told him that the more he sleeps the quicker the time passes and not to try to keep awake when I am there on a visit. He therefore feels relaxed about nodding off and waking up again at leisure when I am around. This gives me a bit of time to chat the nurses up!!
I tried to take in my laptop and a couple of DVD's for him to watch, he seemed to like the idea of that, however my request was rejected bt the Nurses, I tried to ask a few different ones, however they all sang the same tune! "C'est par possible" oh well worth a try.
I then asked about getting him a radio, as he would love to get Radio 5 live or Talk Sport on the go, to my surprise the nurse agreed! All I now need is something that will actually pick up UK radio station.
Any radio buffs out there got any good ideas, please let me know.
Dad still indicating that he was a little about being cold, however other than that he is being very brave and not whinging about anything else, I ask him if there is anything I can do or if he needs the nurse however we both know that there is not much that anybody can really do for him right now and he realises that and indicates that to me.
We both know that 'time' and good care is the only thing that can help him.
Sometimes he looks over at his alphabet board and therefore has a question for me. Tonight we managed easily to spell out "HANSEN". He wanted to know when he would be off to see Steve Hansen the surgeon from Paris, so that was good news that he is already thinking about his next move. I told him, hopefully within the next month, this hopefully is the truth.