Andie's word use continues as well as the confusing strings of words she's putting together. Stuff like " I don't get - oh!" and other seemingly random sentences. She did say halleliua (sp?) when she managed to get an ace bandage off her foot - it was there to help her circulation. She's pretty determined when she does or doesn't want something and it's hard to slow her down when she's set her mind to doing something - she's powerful and strong when she wants to be and has to get a grip on that whole impluse control thing.

One of the therapists said that first thing this morning she said, "question... When will I get out of here? " quite coherently. Along with these times there are the odd sentences, then comes some frustration - she had a short nap this afternoon and two aides and I were in the room when she woke up and started getting up and was mad at me when she was telling me to give her something and none of us knew what she was talking about and she got more and more frustrated until we finally narrowed it down to her glasses.
When I asked about how to help her get her words to come out her doctor just said that we should all encourage her to use her voice and to remind her to slow down - sometimes the thoughts come quickly and they can't get them out when they're trying to talk quickly.
During PT she walked well in the hallway with a walker and tried - for the first time in therapy - and did well on some steps.
In OT she did some multi-colored pegs and when the therapist asked her to remove them she did them two at a time. They then had her search for numbers on a big board it and she was doing well at identifying numbers and at scanning to board in search of the correct numbers - both on the left and the right.
She had her first " recreational therapy" today - that means you go in and play games - it's not supposed to feel so therapy - like and not like they're doing these silly, simple little things that they build from in the other types of therapy. Today she got to play air hockey and did well using her right hand and paying attention to what was going on. The room for RT is open in the evenings and weekends so we've been given permission to go down there if we like during their non- treatment hours. They also have a stove in the room and her room mate told me about the steps she went through to make a can of soup. Hopefully they can incorporate Andie's love of recipes and baking into her therapy here.
Chris to relayed to Josh that Andie played air hockey today and he was like "cool, you mean like the olympic girls?"