P-Dub and Straw Happiness :)

A couple of things from this week...

Marie has completed the final leg of her dietary journey. She has been given the "okay" for using drinking straws. Yeah!!!


Marie's left arm is doing well. She's nicknamed it "P-Dub"... for paper weight... it's not what the physiotherapists like, but it is kind of funny :) Jokes aside, Marie has made huge progress with her left arm in the short time she has been here. When she first arrived, she really had no movement in her arm except some bicep strength. Recently, on top of the other progress we've written about, Marie has demonstrated slight movement in her thumb and slight supination of her left arm. Her bicep muscles are becoming stronger, to the point that she can now almost lift her hand to her face. Her shoulder muscles are very strong, as are the arm muscles used to do a "pushing down" motion. She also has some elbow movement. Physio for the next while is likely going to focus on moving Marie's elbow and her hand.

This week, one of the high lights was that we went out to dinner one night. Another fun thing for Marie is that she is being granted another weekend pass. On Friday night, Marie is going to Barrie for a nice relaxing weekend, and will be coming back Sunday night. So, you won't see any updates here until Monday at the earliest :)

In talking to the Doctor today, he said that the latest release date Marie would likely have from here would be August 7th. Although, there are still a lot of missing puzzle pieces to know what her actual release date will be. We have what they call a "family meeting" the week after next to get more information regarding Marie's discharge planning and other items.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Take care,

Laura