Friday, December 9, 2011

Neurology and Neuro Rehab update

This week I started my Neuro Rehab and saw the Neurologist so here is the laundry list.

1. Restrictions remain the same.

2. In the next six to eight weeks I will practice backing the car out of a parking space and pulling it in with the PT.

3. Swallowing test and Eval will take place next Tuesday and Thursday with the Radiologist and Speech Therapist.

4. Neurologist increased my medication this has been helping with the headaches.

5. A lot of eye excercises and balancing excercises.

6. My Neurologist broke the news to me that it is going to be a while until I can return to the gym again, but I can go on one to two mile walks supervised.

7. I like my new PT, but she is seriously going to work my butt off, which I appreciate.

My new Pt has a brother, who suffered the same type of bleed four years ago so she told me she is very "passsionate" about my condition. At the end of this week, I feel exhausted and tired, but that tells me that the PT has been doing her job. Will update about the swallow eval next week. I'm able to swallow, but my Neuro said that this bleed can effect the swallowing muscles so he wants to make sure that my swallowing muscles are functioning correctly.