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Another Soren update, which I also posted to Making Light:
Quick report: I was at the hospital this morning. Scraps is still not happy, and still having trouble finding words, but he's getting a lot of use out of the few he has, with some patience and goodwill from the people he's talking to.
It took us a while to sort out that when he kept saying "four hours" he was telling us that he'd been in pain for several hours, and not been given anything to relieve it; the physical therapist was unable to make sense of "pro...caine," but when I followed that hint and asked whether he was in pain, and whether he wanted something for it, he said "yes" emphatically, and we found someone with the ability and authority to give him that help.
Vocabulary access is a weird thing: he was using the same few words (including, again, "time" and "time out" a lot) for most things, but then "procaine" came out of somewhere.
Once he got that, he rested a while; he'd had PT earlier, but was back in his room and in bed by then. [He was drowsing and considering eating something when I left, around 12:30]
Quick report: I was at the hospital this morning. Scraps is still not happy, and still having trouble finding words, but he's getting a lot of use out of the few he has, with some patience and goodwill from the people he's talking to.
It took us a while to sort out that when he kept saying "four hours" he was telling us that he'd been in pain for several hours, and not been given anything to relieve it; the physical therapist was unable to make sense of "pro...caine," but when I followed that hint and asked whether he was in pain, and whether he wanted something for it, he said "yes" emphatically, and we found someone with the ability and authority to give him that help.
Vocabulary access is a weird thing: he was using the same few words (including, again, "time" and "time out" a lot) for most things, but then "procaine" came out of somewhere.
Once he got that, he rested a while; he'd had PT earlier, but was back in his room and in bed by then. [He was drowsing and considering eating something when I left, around 12:30]
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