Our Riley - certainley is growing up
Last night we got to see our Riley in real time on Skype, you can probable sense the excitement in our kitchen when the Skype phone rings and there is a mad panic to press the buttons and see Riley. Nicole sent us a couple of photos yesterday and he has certainly grown. Thank heavens for SKYPE. Jill is excited that we will get to see Riley on his first sleep over. They are coming up on Friday and are here for the weekend. Jill has her Brag book to show anybody that visits and we keep adding photos as they are sent to us. I will have the camera in full bloom next weekend. I might take a quick online course in “How to Photograph Babies” before he arrives.
We have continued with Jill’s exercise with a new physio (Izzy) and Emily. They have both given Jill a few new exercises to concentrate on. I showed Emily that I had reintroduced the Crazy Fitness Machine into Jill’s regime. She showed Jill a few extra exercises that she could do while on the vibrator. Sitting in the wheel chair with her feet on the vibrating plate this works the various muscles in her legs. Sitting on the vibrating plate and lifted her legs alternately of the floor, again works on different muscles.
Jill has her good days and bad days. Days when she gets up and everything just goes so well – walking with the gutter frame, walker and exercises just are easy and then on Wednesday and Thursday last week when I am sure she had wished she had stayed in bed.
We have had a couple of visits from a speech therapist and she reintroduced us to the exercises we were doing before. She is going to organise an intensive program similar to the one we did in Albury a couple of years ago. It will involve a couple of hours a day, 5 days per week over a 4 week period. It is based on the Lee Silverman Voice system which concentrates on volume. Think LOUD. She has to set her diary so that this can happen, so we are not sure when this will actually start but it is a positive move. We are back to saying LOUD “AHS” as long as she can.
Michael was here last weekend and Jill and Jill had her hair cut and coloured. Michael has started using and organic hair treatment system and Jill was one of the first. I was amazed as there was no chemical smell. When I had applied dye to Jill’s hair in the weeks between Michael’s visits the smell and fumes really were noticeable. The hair following the new treatment was certainly much softer and the colour was very good. Michael said that the product is about twice the price of conventional treatment. So I guess he will eventually increase his price. Perhaps he will get an extra roast dinner when he visits.
Time to go – Macca almost finished.
See you next week on the net.