I had a appt. this morning with the doctor that did my back surgery. He wants me to continue with physical therapy. I am still not where I need to be with my shoulder and neck muscles. He also ordered a Cat Scan for my lower back. When I first got hurt my lower back has been in pain but we hoped that it was cause by the problems from the disc in my neck. That may not be the case because it still has not improved and he wants to make sure that I had not popped a disc down in my lower back at the same time. Not to mention when I told him about it way back at the beginning of all this he said he could only treat one injury at a time anyway. So that is what I have to look forward to.
After my visit to my doctor I went to see grandfather at the hospital. Luckly my back doc is in the same city at where grandfather has been. I got there around 8:30 this morning. He was still asleep so I just tried to straighten things in the room a little and then got a idea on his schedule for the day. I ran into the physical therapy people who work on him and asked if they could go ahead and work with him since they could not friday cause of dialysis. They were more than happy to do this and I let them know how much I appreciated that. Today he got something new to do. They used what is called a Tilt Table to actually stand him up. What happens is he is strapped to this bed basically and it tilts and supports him so he is upright. They did not go fully straight up and down for the simple fact is he has laid on his back since May and the sensation could actually make him dizzy. He tolerated it fairly well and did the things he was asked as best he could. After maybe a half hour or so he had enough of that and they put him back in bed. The look on his face each time they put the table either up or down was kinda cute. He had the WOW look go across his face. Kinda like "Well this is new" yanno. Once he was back in bed and situated I spent some time with him and then I needed to get home. I needed my own meds and driving today I of course could not take them. Talk about loopy lol. I made sure he was as comfortable as could be and then got back here around 1 or so. Sis will be going tonight.
Speaking of Sis. Sandy and I went over to her house last night and had a nice dinner of ribs and baked potatoes. It was damm good and it was nice to spend time with her and my brother in law and not to mention my lil nephew. Got home around 8 and watched the WWE PPV SummerSlam.
All in all it has been a good day so far. Thanks everyone for keeping my family and myself in your thoughts as always. Wishing you all the very best. Ron
