Heal Nick

Hello to the people of Nicholas’ world… Today is Sept 28, 2006 and it was exactly one year ago today that N was discharged from Spaulding to return home with my parents. I find it extremely fitting that today was my last day working ats a physical therapist at Spaulding. It was more difficult to say farewell to N’s therapy team than it was my own co-workers. 9/28 is an important date to the Robbins Nest as several life changing events have happened on this date. I am leaving my brother in good hands with the rest of my family (including Jackie)and headed out west to live in Boulder, CO for a while. Please be in touch if you find yourself in the wild west.

Love and health to all…
Pamela

Nicholas has not had speech therapy for a couple of months, as it was considered ineffective due to his lack of short term memory. Last week he was given a speech evaluation and will commence this week with combined speech and occupational therapies, along with continued physical therapy. He has also appeared to be somewhat lethargic and emotionally complacent over the past few weeks. Having reported this to his doctor, and on another positive note, some of his medications will be reduced to determine if there is any effect.

There’s nothing to report this week except Nicholas continues to respond positively to therapy and other healing processes.

Ireland was grand, as always. The separation for an extended period was beneficial for everyone for reasons too numerous to explain at this site. Nicholas had a good 10 days of activity with numerous people contributing. Now that Labor Day has passed, it’s time to bear down again. His vision is now back to the level it was prior to the cornea problems. So, he’ll be working on neuro-visual exercises, as well as two separate, weekly physical therapy sessions. One is individual therapy at Community Rehab Care, which he’s been doing for almost a year, and the other is relatively new at a clinic conducted at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Along with these, he’ll be doing aquatic therapy and jin shin jyutsu (http://www.jsjinc.net/), plus a cranial sacral massage each week. GO NICK and -

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
The sun shine warm upon your face
The rains fall soft upon your fields…
(Traditional Irish Blessing)