I keep trying to figure out a way to count the days, but there isn’t really a good way. Do I count from the day of the stroke or the day he started rehab? Do I count any setbacks? From now on, it will just be the day and date, so I can keep it straight.

We had visitors – David Sislen and Pamela Kahn stopped by again today, and then a visit from Maggie who works with David at UNIS, and while I was home baking chicken (don’t ask, it’s my own special therapy – David will lose weight, and I will gain it even though I walk the 20 minutes back and forth, sometimes twice, from home to the hospital) he had a visit from Joanne Hurt, which he told me he enjoyed. I use the word told liberally, as he never said anything, but I figured it out and he gave me the thumbs up. Thanks Joanne!

He did work with Steph, the Physical Therapist and was even helping count his reps as he did some work not he bed, then he sat up for 45 minutes, which was great and important for him to do. As I left tonight, the nurse said that he would probably be transferred down to the Neuro unit tomorrow afternoon, which he is looking forward to. Not really sure why, but I think he thinks he gets more therapy time downstairs, but his stay at the SCU just happened to coincide with the weekend, when he only gets an hour of PT. We did work on the iPad on some exercises in reading and speaking on our own.

An aside – Today, on my walk home in the afternoon, I saw Anthony Weiner leaning on a fence on 20th Street near Gramercy Park, and he was using his iPhone. I wanted so badly to tell him he better not be sending any pictures! I controlled myself.