Journal entry by Thomas Laedtke —
Elise continues her intense therapy sessions each week, with both Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy rehab. Recent focus activities include word enunciation, word choices and sentence completion, writing, math problems, money calculations, telling time, kitchen area tasks, and puzzles. Our home health aid Tabitha assists us from approx 9a-1p weekdays and she has been wonderful, helping with transportation and participation with these rehab appointments, homework, house activities with Elise, and excursions. We see slow but steady progress with Elise's speech and overall recovery.
Cameron continues with his UofM courses on-line with virtual learning and Anna visits our home (basement office) weekdays with her Best Buy Corp marketing job. I continue to juggle many activities, including our home/family and my medical practice. My Fairview Endocrinology practice has been "virtual visits" since 3/2020, seeing 10-15 patients daily and short trips to the nearby Fairview Edina clinic to manage paperwork and visit coworkers daily.
We are so appreciative of our friends and family interactions, and support groups. Elise needs more time out of the house with friends however... any activity such as house visits, walks, 1-on-1 conversation, shopping, excursions, happy hours, Pickleball... with the usual COVID-19 precautions. These interactions are a big help to me also. Unfortunately, she is not yet able to text or email, so contacts must go through my cell phone.
Thanks for your support.
Tom
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