friday 22 evening visit
Saturday/August/2008 12:07 AM Barrie`s
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Dear
all,
Barrie's second visit today was much better than the 1st. He seemed to have less of a fever and was not as heavily drugged up as lunchtime.
Shame Rene was not there tonight instead of this afternoon!
Barrie was fully awake and was doing his pysio exercises that he had been taught by his therapist. In fact he was showing off a little!! Moving his arms up and down in repetition, as if he were training in the Gym. Wiggling his fingers and toes around and all sorts of other new tricks!
He and I were both really pleased with his pysio progress. During the visit he periodically started to exercise, we started with sets of 10, each arm at a time. Little breaks in between. If he pushed a little too hard, he would start to cough, not good, so we rested and started again a few mins later. He is completely determined to get up and running and fit again as soon as he can.
Great fighting spirit. He will of course succeed.
I stayed and chatted about F1 and our Olympic heros and explained that Radio in France would not work, however worked out that we can get World News and 5 Live sports via Pod cast into his I Pod, this should help to keep him company when he is alone and link him to the outside world.
As he can now move his arms and fingers up and in more control, he is able to point more accurately to letters on the white board, so communication is far easier, he was even able to tell me where he had his BRDC passes stashed!!
Good visit, Barrie on good form and I left feeling very happy.
Good night
Barrie's second visit today was much better than the 1st. He seemed to have less of a fever and was not as heavily drugged up as lunchtime.
Shame Rene was not there tonight instead of this afternoon!
Barrie was fully awake and was doing his pysio exercises that he had been taught by his therapist. In fact he was showing off a little!! Moving his arms up and down in repetition, as if he were training in the Gym. Wiggling his fingers and toes around and all sorts of other new tricks!
He and I were both really pleased with his pysio progress. During the visit he periodically started to exercise, we started with sets of 10, each arm at a time. Little breaks in between. If he pushed a little too hard, he would start to cough, not good, so we rested and started again a few mins later. He is completely determined to get up and running and fit again as soon as he can.
Great fighting spirit. He will of course succeed.
I stayed and chatted about F1 and our Olympic heros and explained that Radio in France would not work, however worked out that we can get World News and 5 Live sports via Pod cast into his I Pod, this should help to keep him company when he is alone and link him to the outside world.
As he can now move his arms and fingers up and in more control, he is able to point more accurately to letters on the white board, so communication is far easier, he was even able to tell me where he had his BRDC passes stashed!!
Good visit, Barrie on good form and I left feeling very happy.
Good night