Just to let you know things are still moving forward at the Halvar Johnson Center. Things have been very slow through summer as therapist go on holiday no replacements are brought in for most therapies they just get canceled making for a very long day.
The pool shutdown on July 1 for repairs and maintenance leaving us without any aqua therapy and a lot of other therapies also out of commission. We did the best we could over the two weeks, we had changes to the drugs and the amounts used. Didn't seem to help much at all. We are now embarking on taking Chris off his current meds. Then trying a couple new ones. Our discussions regarding treatment have led us to a an expected departure date sometime during the week of August 24, Chris will be brought back to BC and hopefully the therapists that we needed to locate will be in place by that time, as well, the extended care help that we've been asking for and trying to get in order.
This week has been the return to the pool, which has been great for Christopher. Kylan, Gwen and Shelley all came back to visit Chris this week. While here Kylan has been coming in the pool every day with me to help stretch Christopher and limber him up, Gwen and Shelley get a birds eye view from the deck. The days are long, warm and with therapists away on holidays sometimes seem unfulfilled, but just knowing that the things we can do and care that's being given is great, we can keep building from there.
Most of the equipment and the things that we will be needed at home we have located or the processing of getting, the doctors here will approve or recommend them for use in Chris's rehab. Hopefully ending a trail of paper crap, red tape and the needless hiring of extra people for no real purpose, so they can look at the equipment for ICBC and tell them yes or no, they are needed or not, most of them don't understand the use of allot of the new equipment. Watching Christopher's medical money being spent pointlessly is very irritating.
We are also in the process now of setting up Chris's home care plan and applying to the government for assistance with his care, will be updating the site again tomorrow once we finish an early-morning pool session and have a little more to add thanks for checking.
Kevin
