Bill, Friday August 23; bike and food

BIKE: Bill was wheeled into the therapy room and up to the bicycle machine.  Ryan strapped in Bill's feet and shins, and set him off on a "ride."  A total of 15 minutes, half forward and half backward. But the REALLY INTERESTING part is the display which shows the percentage of effort coming from each side. Ryan said the effort seems to come mostly from the hip, but the left side was definitely contributing! Maybe 10-20 percent, but it's there. Ryan was suitably impressed.  On Monday, OT plans to have Bill use the "hand cycle" part of the machine.

FOOD: During speech therapy, he had some split pea soup and chocolate milk: "Delicious." And he will start getting some regular food at meals. Well, the term "regular" is relative, because solids have to be pureed, and liquids have to be nectar, or thickened.  Claire, like Ryan, was suitably impressed at his progress.

Tomorrow, Saturday, would usually be a quiet day. But he didn't get PT on Monday, so tomorrow should be a catch-up session.