Yesterday we had our first Case Conference. This is where they get everyone from each department of Mark's rehab together to discuss how he's doing, what they should be concentrating on over the coming weeks then set a discharge date. At the end of the discussions his Consultant wanted to set a discharge date of 6 weeks (from yesterday) but everyone else ie Occupational Therapy, Physio and Nursing all disagreed and wanted it to be 8 weeks. Mainly because he has been ill and it has put him back about 3 weeks in his rehab. So we have a provisional discharge date of August 30th. Mark was reasonable happy with this, he knows he has some catching up to do from being ill and although he will be on antibiotics for another week and a half he's started back in the Gym today. He's having to build up chair time again, he got to where he was doing about 8 or 9 hours, but he's back to 6 or 7 before he needs to go back to bed. But he is on the mend and moving forward so we're really pleased with that.
Mike and I are registered to use Barbara Bus now. It's a people carrier donated to the hospital from the 'Barbara Foundation' and it's equipped for a wheelchair in the back and is for anyone on the Spinal Ward to use to go out whenever they want. We've booked it for an outing next Friday, we think Mark should be up to being terrified by me driving him around by then!!
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