COMING HOME!!

Bruce will be coming home this next Thursday, December 8. He is still confused at times, has difficulty expressing what he wants to say, and has weakness in his left leg. On the other hand, he walked with his walker VERY WELL today, actually using momentum and a fashioned sling to facilitate lifting his left leg/knee to try to get the leg to activate in walking. The physical therapist, nursing staff, Mitch and I were ecstatic!! I kept bribing him with a kiss in order to get him to walk to where I was standing :) Too funny. Should have seen the grin on his face!! He shaved himself for the first time this morning (I had been doing the honors, and not very well, I might add!) He is now able to get from a sitting position to a standing position and back again with very little prompting from us. So apparently the brain is renewing those neurotransmitter pathways somewhere and sometimes :)

Now we are in the process of getting our home ready for his homecoming. There is a lot of preparation involved in this. The goal has been, and always will be, to make Bruce as comfortable as we can and help him to achieve the highest level of quality of life that we can offer. I have total confidence in our family and friends that we can and WILL achieve that very successfully....with a little bit of help from Bru-man :))

We are going to start organizing visits throughout the weeks so as to not overwhelm Bruce once he returns home. If you haven't had a chance to visit him yet, your time is coming, trust me!! He is grateful and appreciative of those who have come to see him, but I can guarantee that he will be absolutely over the moon to see everyone once he is at home and in familiar environs. Here's to progress!!! Luv ya all! Val AND Bruce