Monday a.m from Jamie

I spent the night with mom last night and she had a restful night.

At around 6:45 a.m., Brad from occupational therapy came in and put mom through a battery of tests. She did really well on them all in all. With Brad's direction, she was able to sit up on the bed, put her slippers on, walk into the bathroom, brush her teeth and comb her hair.

She is still having difficulty speaking and conveying what she is thinking or knows to be the correct answer when asked questions. That is what the speech therapy will address once we get to that point....we are all VERY anxious for her to get started on that ASAP.

Mom doing well on the occupational evaluation is a double edge sword. In order to remain here at OSF in their inhouse Rehab unit for her speech therapy (3-4 hours of intense therapy per day), she needs to require two of the three areas of: physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. Unfortunately, we are being led to expect her not being admitted to that because she is advanced enough in the physical and occupational areas to not qualify either of those as her second area.

We will see what the rest of the day brings...which will include an evaluation/decision from the head doctor of the inhouse Rehab here at OSF, rounds by her current attending physician (who ultimately is the one who decides discharge), and a meeting with the "patient advocate" who helps with getting you set up with what you need as you go through discharge.