Post Surgery - Day 7
Alyssa had her rehabilitation assessment today and the physical therapists are recommending that she be transferred into an intensive inpatient program for both physical and occupational therapy. Their feeling is that now, as her body and brain are trying to create new connections, is the time to capitalize on this process so that we can maximize her motor function restoration.
We are being told that Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is the best place for pediatric rehabilitation so we are going to take a tour there tomorrow with the expectation that she will be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday. The length of this rehabilitation is undetermined at this point but either way, because Alyssa's walking is quite wobbly, she will likely need a leg brace in the short term so that she can prevent hyperextending and injuring her knee.
Alyssa also made friends with her roommate today who, up until today, has been pretty much out cold post-surgery. She, too, had had a mass removed from her brain at the base of her spinal cord. Come to think of it.. all the kids in this hospital ward have had their heads cut open for some reason or another and are in various stages of recovery. We met an 11 year old girl who was going home today, who had had half of her head shaved and was recovering from her 5th brain surgery. All of these children are amazingly brave!
We are being told that Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is the best place for pediatric rehabilitation so we are going to take a tour there tomorrow with the expectation that she will be discharged from the hospital on Wednesday. The length of this rehabilitation is undetermined at this point but either way, because Alyssa's walking is quite wobbly, she will likely need a leg brace in the short term so that she can prevent hyperextending and injuring her knee.
Alyssa also made friends with her roommate today who, up until today, has been pretty much out cold post-surgery. She, too, had had a mass removed from her brain at the base of her spinal cord. Come to think of it.. all the kids in this hospital ward have had their heads cut open for some reason or another and are in various stages of recovery. We met an 11 year old girl who was going home today, who had had half of her head shaved and was recovering from her 5th brain surgery. All of these children are amazingly brave!
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