Friday, March 10

Today there were more steps forward for Shar - literally and physically.  In the morning she got a full shower for the first time.  It was exhausting for her, but she hung in there and felt great afterward.  In addition, she had 1 1/2 hours of speech therapy where they played a game with her - and we all know that Shar loves games!  They showed her a flash card of a common object and then she had to describe it to the other speech therapist.  It was kind of like the game password, which she made her children play when they had to wait for an event to start.  

 In other exciting news, Shar took 15 steps unassisted with her walker today.  This was the furthest she has walked since the stroke over three weeks ago.  In addition, Mindy and Lauren got to the rehab around 1:30 pm and spent all night with her.  They laughed a lot, but of course, Mindy provided her own therapy.  Shar certainly slept well because of the 3 hours of therapy coupled with Mindy therapy (which is probably a lot harder).  Lauren also taught her to make the "rock on" hand gesture so don't surprised if she does that the next time she sees you!