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Hi everyonee,…… I am going to go home this weekend. Mackenzie is coming to stay with us. We are going to go out for a drive. I am looking forward to it. (Continued…)

Hi. My first post all by myself. I went out to the first restaurant it was fantastic.  (Continued…)

Milestones (Continued…)

“Instead of Flowers” was going to be, and may still be, the name of a pamphlet I want to produce and make available to family and friends of stroke survivors. I decided I wanted to do this during recovering from my own stroke 6 1/2 years ago. This id…

The bear facts are I’m aging. This week my daughters had birthdays turning 32 and 25. It helps that I started at 12. This photo is of them in ’09 when Kiley flew west to drive home with Mackenzie to Ontario after working in the west a couple years. …

Yesterday Al was cast for an AFO (Ankle foot orthotic) with hinges. This will help with his right foot in the swing through phase. He tends to catch his foot now but the AFO will help support his foot and not let it fall past 90 degrees eliminating p…

Bridget roams about the apartment missing Al. She gets quite excited when he is here on the weekends.  (Continued…)

Natasha took this photo of Al and me yesterday. I have been encouraging Al to take responsibility for his medications when he is home. He got a bit argumentative with me over his supper dose. His way of making up was to invite me to sit on his goo…

Sunday Al continued practicing his walking and here he is standing on his own with his favorite women. His daughters took turns being his communication therapist on Sunday. The exercises were surprisingly confusing and challenging.  (Continued…)

Al is home for his second weekend. So far things are going smooth. His daughters arrived yesterday from Montreal. Before they arrived I had Al working on some communication home work. He was not keen but I told him weekends home were not vacation a…