Good morning dear friends. After not too much sleep we are up and cheery. We are stuck on the TV series 24 on DVDs that Charlie sent, and it is so active and intense that we are finding it hard to settle down to sleep. I got up at midnight to make lists of things I have to do and Chuck was awake too. He still needs to get plenty of sleep for brain rebooting, so we might have to move watching the 24 DVDs to the afternoon so we can settle down to go to sleep!!!! It is amazing what coffee will do "the morning after". Chuck, Dave, and Charlie just started out for a walk while I work on some piles of paperwork. The hospital and doctors’ bills are starting to come in and I have to copy them and send them on to worker’s comp AND call the individual billing doctor’s offices to give them worker’s comp information. YIKES! I’m still excited about Chuck’s eye exam with my friend from the St. Augustine Emmaus and book club. She increased his prescription, and she said his eyes are healthy and not affected by his brain injury. Thank God! He ordered 2 pairs of new glasses (bifocals for improved reading, and wrap around sunglasses). He’s anticipating using the wrap arounds when he rides the motorcycle, but that is a long way off. He probably won’t be cleared for driving for months; and the motorcycle… well that requires much more coordination than we have right now. … Chuck seems much clearer since the doctor dropped the second seizure medicine (dilantin). We have 2 PT sessions this week and then we’ll be off for the Keys and Christmas with Aunt Trudy. We might stay for a week and take Trudy to a New Years Day party on our Big Pine Key block. Speaking of PT: We will be looking at exercise bands to continue the exercises he is doing in PT. If anyone has had success with these, please recommend what you bought and how you used them. We looked at Bow Flex machines, but believe it or not, I don’t have room for a giant home gym…. Exercise bands we can handle. Life is a series of ups and downs. Thank God for both, for he gave us adequate faith, hope and charity on Christmas day. God bless you! Love Susie
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