Today, one of the themes for the day was three.  Three weeks until David comes home, which is at once, exciting and terrifying.  I guess now I know how it must feel to bring a baby home and have to take care of him – only my baby is 178 lbs!  Not to mention the fact that my baby has his own very particular opinions of how things should be.

I have talked about David’s speech issues, which are daunting, but today he was able to count to ten with very little modeling or prompting.  I just got him started, and he ran with it!  I also felt that his trying to speak was much better today.  He had PT before I got up to 106th Street this morning, and the therapist gave him a new brace for his right knee.  it is the same one that I used when I had tendonitis in my knee, and he said he loved it and that under no circumstances was I to let anyone take it away.  From what I gather, he could walk much better with it, but I think that Minet may not like it too much, because it will slow the increase in strength with his right knee.  We will see what happens this week, but I have written his name in the brace, and I will make it “disappear” if I need to.  Basically, it immobilizes the knee.

We had a nice visit from Judith and Ron, and talked about UNIS stuff, which also reminds me to thank Michelle for her visit earlier in the day, the alumni newsletter and the blanket!  We used the blanket tonight, which came in handy.  Judith filled us in on the goings on at UNIS, as I am sure Michelle did this morning.  David is very interested in UNIS and how things are progressing with the search for a new ED and the day to day happenings at UNIS.

So, as I left 106th Street tonight, I will share that I was very down, but as I walked my way to the subway (there was no way I was going to walk in this drizzle) and then made my way across town from Penn Station, I got myself into a more positive frame of mind, and when I got home, I began making chicken parmesan for a meal for me, and to bring to David for tomorrow’s lunch – they are having some sort of awful fish dish, and he needs to be spared that!

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