Tuesday 15 January 2013

Botoxed!

After waiting an hour this afternoon Pete got his Botox injections - much to his relief as his arm has been really painful, so this should alleviate it in the next few days. The consultant apologised for keeping us waiting so long and then had a rant about how they had double booked him all day! Said he will be having something to say about it and it shouldn't happen again. So felt much friendlier towards him then!! Anyway, it is ten and a half weeks since Pete's last injections and his muscles have really tightened in the last 2/3 weeks so he was given a higher dose in the hope it will last longer. He had 3 injections like last time in the same muscles.
We did letters and sounds again today. Pete wrote the letters and then I asked him to point to the correct letter as I made the sounds, this wasn't a problem for him, but then I asked him to write the letter when I said the sound - big problem! It's really odd that he can't write the sounds but can point to them if they are already there. He then gets quite confused about the whole thing. So lots more work to do on that.
Exercises were basic today as Pete's arm is bad and he is dosed up on paracetamol!! We only did the ones on the bed with his lower leg. Nothing else, but he has done some walking and also has had the FES on for a few hours.
Nothing from the GP, surprise, surprise! So will ring him tomorrow.
The weather forecast for this weekend coming is for lots of snow in this part of the country. I hope it isn't too much as everything grinds to a halt with the first snowflake, and I have an optician appointment on Friday and hoping to go out Saturday if the rest of the girls can make it. So fingers crossed everyone - I feel I am ready for an evening of the girls and gossip!!
Tomorrow we have physio followed by a visit from the lady from Connect and the speech therapist, so a busy day.
Is anyone watching Winterwatch on the tv? We are really enjoying it.

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