Happy Birthday Alex!

Today was a pretty good day.  When I arrived, David was busy working on his OT, and then we moved on to Speech, and Siobhan is working with him, which made him very happy.  She has a good rapport with him, and I think is very interested in David’s particular problems with speech, so is working extra hard.  He did more of the alphabet with him, and I ran off to arrange for a day of beauty for him – his hair is getting a little long.  He had more PT with Minet in the afternoon, and did well there as well.  Kathleen Stevenson arrived just before the PT and we both sat in on his session.  After his session, we went down to the garden for a little sitting, and Kathleen brought some great gifts – Pom Pom’s for me to cheer David with, some delicious madeleines, some ginger cake and a bottle of grapefruit cologne from Jo Malone – one of David’s favorites!

When we got upstairs, one of the nursing supervisors wanted another statement and kept asking David to tell her, in his own words what happened.  It amazes me that these folks don’t check before coming in to see what the patients status is, and she doesn’t know that he can’t speak.  She then asked me to write my version of what happened, from my point of view, and when I was done, her only concern was, “did I say that he didn’t soil himself?”  I simply added a PS that he didn’t soil himself, but it doesn’t change the fact that he was not taken to the bathroom when he asked to be, and this was not acceptable.  I am hoping that tomorrow I will not hear that this aide was on duty again.