Week 12 – Imports on the way?

Another week has passed – retirement is starting to sink in .We are still waiting for the finalisation of the sale, that should be early this week. Father’s day has passed, Allison and Chris stayed overnight and took us out to lunch. We have spoken to both Michael & Chris this evening.

Jill has been doing the range of exercises twice each day. We need to organise a physio to assess the exercises and Jill’s ability to do each set. The range of exercises that Jill is currently doing are

a) treadmill – walking -10 to 15 minutes

b) exercise bike- 5 minutes forward, 5 minutes back

c) walking – parallel bars – with gait board – repeat with out board doing various types of step exercises

d) balance board- 10minutes

e) Stairs- 4-6 sets up & down

f) stretching and bending at wall bars – leg strengthening

g) various exercises using exercise ball and hand weights

Each exercise is broken by a 5 minute rest.

Her exercises are accompanied by Jake – who watches every move.

We have organised the two chairs from China and will probably take a bout two weeks , the Vocastim voice unit will be here this week we hope.

Fingers crossed that the next stage of Jill’s Gym will happen this week.

See you all next week on the net.

 

Jill on the balance board Jill doing stair exercises Jake keeping a watchful eye

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One Response to Week 12 – Imports on the way?

  1. Jon says:

    Hey guys,

    Keep it up. It is important. There is another MSA patient in Shenzhen now. He is from Spain. There is also another MSA patient coming from America to Shenyang on the 11th. I will see if they want to do a blog to keep you updated. Otherwise let me know if you want to be in touch with them and I will put you in touch.

    Back in Shenzhen and have talked to Bill and he said that the IV injections really helped his knees. Still hurts some but better.

    Finally, a couple other things: a) now we have the whole 14th floor which is very nice with a great common room at Nanshan b) there are a couple new blogs to take a look at: http://www.stemcellschina.com/blogs/Luther and http://www.stemcellschina.com/blogs/David.

    Thanks for really taking the blog idea to the next level. Some of the patients here have really taken to it.

    Thanks.

    – Jon

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