Alan’s Army

Hi all!

A big day today for Alan. His rehab doctor visited him this morning and told him that the conclusion from Thursday night’s examinations by the opthomologist and neuro-opthomologist is that his optic nerve is swollen. They believe that once the swelling abates, his vision will improve.  This is certainly something we will pray for.

This afternoon Alan went on a grand adventure. His various therapists took him outside in his wheelchair, put him in a car and drove to Dunkin’ Donuts where they had him walk into Dunkin’ Donuts and order himself a strawberry-banana smoothie.

Alan also had a substitute speech therapist today. She told him that the half-hour they were together was her favorite half-hour of her day so far. Alan then quipped, “Of course, at that time it was only 10:30am.”

A sleeper-sofa we ordered back on March 8th is finally arriving tomorrow, and since I need brothers-in-law help to move the old one into the barn, I decided to make a short trip to visit Alan tonight.  I drove Amber and Angel to Edison and we spent Alan’s one-hour “away” time outside. Thankfully the earlier Dunkin’ Donuts run didn’t count against us.

Just before our time to leave, BOB showed up to visit and Ginny reported that Todd Cottrell and Ali Wilkinson also visited with Alan tonight.

Good night all, sleep tight, my head is arching towards the pillow.

Andrew