Wednesday July 22, 2009

We are getting down to the end of it, and it is getting sad. Mark only has 2 more days of PT left and 1 injection left. I's crazy that we're aleady at the end of it, but we figure it is only the beginning. We are excited of what is yet to come. We know he will have to continue to work hard and keep up with his PT. I know I won't be as good as the therapists here that's for sure but I will definitely make him work hard :) We love Angie and she has been so good to us and has made Mark work so hard. It's funny to watch her because when she does the excercises she stimulates the area or muscle by pulling it back or forward, slapping it, or running a brush over it. Today she was stimulating by slapping the area and using the brush and we were laughing because Mark had red marks all over his leg. She felt bad but Mark was more than hapy to let her beat up on him. She said she must have the feeling she needs to hit something and Mark was more than willing to be that person. I thought it was great and it was really funny to watch her do it. Now I have an excuse to slap him around a little bit when I get home!! It was funny though because he did scare her a couply of times when she was doing it because he would say ow or his leg was hurting and she would get really worried. Then she would look at him and realize he was joking. You know Mark he's usually always joking, but it makes it fun! After PT we headed over for our injection. We got our last IV injection and we are down to only one more back injection on Friday. Of course then it was on to Marks favorite part of laying flat but this time he actually took a little nap. He usually can't but this time he was pretty tired so he was able to get a little one in. We are excited for tomorrow for Brad and Carena to be here. They get here really early in the morning like at 6:00, so when we get up, they'll be here!! Oh and I apologize for all my spelling errors and if things don't make sense. I usually don't re-check everything I just post it and then Mark will read it and let me know how many mistakes I have. So I'm sorry i'm not the best at spelling or writting in general!! I figure I am not turning in an english paper so you get the unedited version mistakes and all :)

See it 's not all so serious :) Actually Mark has them laughing all the time and is usually joking around with them

Mark getting special attention from 3 therapists

Just waiting

Mark with Dr. Alfonso and Dr. Tomas

Getting his last IV injection

Even Angie noticed that when Mark was first doing these excercises she would have to kneel right behind him and hold him and now she just has to brace him and he does the rest. His strength and balance has gotten so much better!