Hospital Day 10 - It's Physical Therapy!

Not your father's physical therapy

 Many of you have asked where we are staying. We get to stay in the room with Toe. There is a fold out chair and a window seat that each convert into a bed. We made the agreement early on to take turns on the fold out bed but after we had each slept on one bed once, Jason very kindly offered for me to sleep in the window bed - and the next night he offered again. I have slept in the window bed ever since. Jason is an absolute prince.

In addition to regular breathing treatments and IV antibiotics, Toe had some physical therapy to address his aching legs. The physical therapist showed us some stretches to do with him and then brought some games to keep him active during his stay. She said that his legs and range of motion look great and just to keep up with physical activity.

Good stretches

 Exercise 1 - take parachute men up the stairs to the 11th floor and drop them. Then walk down to the seventh floor to retrieve the guys. Repeat.

We were all breathing pretty hard by the end.

Exercise 2 - put a basketball hoop on the back of the bathroom door and shoot hoops.

Exercise 3 - Shoot nerf darts down the hall and retrieve them.

This is my kind of physical therapy. Toe had so much exercise, he crashed for a nap this afternoon.

When we woke up, we were visited by dear friends (some of whom brought an amazing homemade dinner!) who came with us to the sky bridge to watch Toe launch the Nerf darts. He took some real running starts.

We also had a quick visit from my mom today. So nice to see her, even for a few minutes. So nice to see everyone! The visits have been one of my favorite parts of our stay. We are all tired but in great spirits and very happy to be together.