Day 100 - Ton Up

100 days gone, and as I have so often said sometimes the time seems to have flown by and other times it seems to have been forever. What I do know is that since 21st November, cleo and I are closer, and more in love than we were then, if that's possible.

Apart from all the medical stuff, so much else has happened, particularly us getting married of course, which is about the biggest thing in my life at least.

In the post this morning we received a cd from our friends rose and Dave, who were at the wedding, with photographs taken by them, and all set to music. The song? You Raise Me Up, of course. Have to say that it had us both blubbing like mad before we had to go off to physio with James.

James got cleo working to put weight through her arm today, like she does with her leg, and this is to try and stimulate the triceps muscle, which works opposite to the biceps. In cleos case the biceps is firing but the triceps is not, and so it's almost impossible to get any movement in the arm until they both work opposite each other. James is still highly optimistic of getting something from the arm, and I am happy to go with that view. Based on the fact that cleo has sensitivity in the hand, and fingers, and some involuntary firing of muwcles james says there is still a good chance that something will come back there. I guess it's all about time and let's see right now. But we shan't give up on it. He even had me hold her arm to convince her that she was getting some voluntary movement there because she was thinking he was just saying it to keep her going. Not so, there is still something there in the upper arm, and I believe that with work and determination this will improve.

cleo has now admitted to herself the need for sleep, and so is more accepting of having to rest much more than she thought possible, but the last couple of days have proved that if she gets plenty of rest she does not feel so emotionally stressed, and we need to maintain that as her recovery continues.

We are under no illusions that this is no short term thing, and that her rehabilitation will continue for months, even years to come, but by good management of her lifestyle I am sure that she will achieve daily advances on her Road to Recovery.