Post Surgery - Day Four
We've posted a post-surgery picture of Alyssa to this blog. Her head is still bandaged and her face is still a bit swollen but she has made really good improvements today and is beginning to look more normal. She can sit up pretty well on her own (although sometimes she does fall over) and she can stand for a moment on her legs.
Her mental prowess hasn't been diminished in any way as evidenced by the fact that she is the reining champion of Candy Land. She has even brilliantly made up New Rules for the game where she 1) is required to shuffle the deck 2) strategically places the Frosty Princess card (the square closest to the end of the board) on the top of the now shuffled deck and 3) must be the first player to draw a card. Then, for cards that are chosen that typically send players backward to the beginning of the board, Alyssa's New Rules have determined that those cards only apply to adults and not to children, making her exempt. Now, if these new rules aren't brilliant, I don't know what is.
Alyssa also had PT (Physical Therapy) today.
The first session was in the morning, soon after the crack-of-dawn, cruel and sadistic doctor rounds where a team of doctors insist on violently waking you up during your REM sleep, gawk at you like a caged animal, barrage you with questions and then leave you in a sleep-deprived quivering mass. So, as can be imagined, Alyssa was quite grumpy during this PT session... that is until the bubbles came out and she had to pop them every which way.
The second PT was in the afternoon and went much better than the first but the third session was probably the best. It wasn't an offical hospital-sanctioned PT but rather one brilliantly derived by Gordon. The objective for Alyssa was to punch at the wonderful get-well-soon balloons (thanks to everyone who has sent them) with both hands, but especially the weaker right hand. This PT Program is called Punch The Surgeon.
Her mental prowess hasn't been diminished in any way as evidenced by the fact that she is the reining champion of Candy Land. She has even brilliantly made up New Rules for the game where she 1) is required to shuffle the deck 2) strategically places the Frosty Princess card (the square closest to the end of the board) on the top of the now shuffled deck and 3) must be the first player to draw a card. Then, for cards that are chosen that typically send players backward to the beginning of the board, Alyssa's New Rules have determined that those cards only apply to adults and not to children, making her exempt. Now, if these new rules aren't brilliant, I don't know what is.
Alyssa also had PT (Physical Therapy) today.
The first session was in the morning, soon after the crack-of-dawn, cruel and sadistic doctor rounds where a team of doctors insist on violently waking you up during your REM sleep, gawk at you like a caged animal, barrage you with questions and then leave you in a sleep-deprived quivering mass. So, as can be imagined, Alyssa was quite grumpy during this PT session... that is until the bubbles came out and she had to pop them every which way.
The second PT was in the afternoon and went much better than the first but the third session was probably the best. It wasn't an offical hospital-sanctioned PT but rather one brilliantly derived by Gordon. The objective for Alyssa was to punch at the wonderful get-well-soon balloons (thanks to everyone who has sent them) with both hands, but especially the weaker right hand. This PT Program is called Punch The Surgeon.
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