If you read the blog regularly, you know that Friday’s are our busy day, and today was no different.  Remember yesterday I said that David got his temporary crown put in.  Well, the emphasis was on temporary, as it came out while eating cereal this morning.  He didn’t seem to have any discomfort, so we just saved it for when we went back in two weeks.

Onelsis, the aide on Friday, went with David to Speech Therapy to work with him, which went very well, I was told.  I sat in the waiting room and was only called to fill in one blank – what is the sushi restaurant that we go to regularly?  Sen Nin.  When that was done, Onelsis went to her next client, and David and I went to Occupational Therapy with Maneshka. Good session, with a little more movement in his right arm, and also a little movement in his wrist – only in one direction though, but it’s a start.

After OT, I walked back with David and on the way we had blood drawn, and then stopped to pick up lunch at  Nanoosh on Madison.  David got a falafel wrap, and I a hummus wrap.  quite good, and I have been wanting to try them out along with Tina’s, a cuban place next door.  We had lunch from Tina’s the other day.  Also very good.  When we got home and David started eating, he began feeling some pain around the missing crown, so I called the NYU clinic, and they were closing up soon for the week!  The emergency clinic might be available tomorrow, but David didn’t want to deal with that.  I remembered that Gwen had given me the name and number of her dentist, and I called and was told that she could see him at 2pm – the same time a Physical Therapy.  We headed off early in hopes that she could take care of it quickly and maybe a bit early, and Dr. Wang did just that!  The temporary crown was put back in, and all was right with the world, and we made it to PT in time.  Did walking and then did some

timing to compare.  There were three tests TUG – where he got up from a chair walked about 10 feet away, turned round, and came back and sat.  His time was very similar to his last time, but still much better than when we started.  The second test – 10MWT, he just walks from a standing position to 10 meters.  Carolyn things that if he had done this a second time today, he would have done better, but he was only off by about 4 seconds, and is still better than where we started.  Finally, he beat the 5x Sit to Stand test, where he just sits and stands five times, and he beat that and cut his original time in half.  Congratulations David!

So, then we headed home, and we both took a nap.  Then, up and I made some pasta for dinner, and the damned crown came out again!  I will call Dr. Wang on Monday, and I am sure she will take care of it.  I think when I had my crowns done, the temporaries stayed in at about the same length –  a couple of hours.  Even my permanent ones, came out pretty regularly.

Watched Project Runway, and I agree, they should all have gone home.  At least they stood their ground and declared none of them winners.  What a complete mess, and this is the one time watching this show that I thought – God, I could do better!  Another Foyle’s War as well then the blog (two entries) and David told me I forgot to mention that Gail Johnson had brought a special guest visitor, who he couldn’t tell me, but I hope the guest or Gail will be reading this and fill me in!  We only did one object and didn’t spend time with Julia, but will save that for tomorrow.  The object was a North American Buckskin Map, number 88.