We went back to the U for Travis's 1st physical therapy visit since the infusions last week. Still at a very low pain level and a lot of the time he is pain free. GREAT!!! So he got some exercise to help stretch and strengthen his leg. Its so weak from no use really since injury in Oct 2010. Today was also his fellow Dr.'s last week so we got to talk for a few minutes. He is moving to Oklahoma soon, he will be very missed by Trav. Not sure we would have got the results we did if he didn't fight to get the Ketamine bumped up when he did. He also told us that the Dr.s involved would be writing some papers to publish on all that Trav has been thru. Travis was the first outpatient ketamine treatment they had done at the U of U Pain Clinic. They have done them in the hospital but not the office. So we hope that this can help others dealing with this nasty monster. I was able to get the video that they took of Trav and the first time he was able to walk. Its about 40 minutes long else I would post it here. If I can figure out how to take pieces of it I will post it. It goes from him doing stretches and talking about wanting to walk again and if he remembers how to walking and the emotion are incredible. I bawled again watching it.
Sleep has been a little of a challenge still. Getting better each night for him. Stairs are tricky since his leg is so weak. All of that will come. Tomorrow will be a week with no crutches!!!
We will be going back once a week for the next month so I will post as much as I can about all he is going thru getting back to life.
Might give the pool a try this weekend and he was finally able to walk barefoot on grass. What a great feeling!!!
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