Much like long distance runners, who are pushing themselves to, and then through a limit of endurance, i am seeing very much the same in my cleo of late. By early evening she finds that she is very tired, and needs to sleep. Of course i fully understand; her body is recovering from major trauma, and is further tired by the fcat that many of her muscles are working extra hard to compensate for those that are still paralysed, and she is also expending a lot of emotional and nervous energy working at improving and quickening her rehabilitation. I am sure i would be damn tired too.
She tends to wake quite early in the mornings, and therefore by early evening she is beginning to feel the tiredness creeping up on her.
Today we were out just before 10am, off to the Hairdressers. Two hours later cleo was back as a blonde again! All the plum colour that went into her hair just before the stroke was stripped out, and a blonde colour added, along with a really nice cut. She looks fab!
After this it was straight to physio at 1pm, and home after that. James worked on hip stability, and knee and foot control. All these things will enable cleo to walk better. What we do realise now is that these things do not happen quickly, and I think we might be talking a year till she can be confident about walking on her own. That is purely my gut instinct, but I am expecting nothing better: if she is walking well next Christmas i will be more than pleased!
We had a call from the "core care team" today too. A speech therapist is coming to see cleo tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully she may help improve the slight slur and stutter that cleo still has left from the stroke.
We shall see.
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