So, it was another day.  David had a great Physical Therapy with his new PT York (Steph has gone on vacation to SE Asia – good for Steph and I asked her to bring back food!)   Fortunately she left our David in York’s capable, kind, strong hands!  He made David work, and work hard.  He did one exercise that made me start to think of dancing, which was fun.  Step, touch, etc – no turn – but. . . .  He also had Speech Therapy with Liat, and he is doing OK, but not as well as I might like, however at his afternoon’s session with Liat, she upgraded him to clear liquids, which was great news.  Sometimes he looked like he was having an orgasm when he would drink water, so it is a welcome relief for that to be allowed now.  Sip as much as you like, I say!  I just want to hear his stories.  I see a lot in his smile, but it takes so long, and I could never, even pre-stroke, tell his stories the way he would.  Today, it took quite a while to get this one out:

When we arrived this morning the guard at the front desk asked me, “who is this David Shapiro that so many people come to see?  I think I will need to go upstairs and see him”.  I told him that he was a celebrity at the front desk because he got so many visitors, and what the guard said.  When I came back from having lunch, he wanted me to find the nurse to tell me something that had happened, and I had the nurse paged so he could tell me what happened while I was gone that David thought was very funny.  Finally Carson, his nurse, came in and I asked what had happened.  He looked puzzled and said, “he ate lunch?”  An impatient David said “come on!!” (one of his favorite phrases), and Carson remembered, a guard from downstairs came up to meet the famous David Shapiro who EVERYONE wanted to visit.  So it was true, even in his current state, he is the most popular person in the building.  He certainly is for me.

Many of you have seen this, but want to share this picture from our wedding.  My favorite now.