today

Grrrr....haven't got the power chair yet. they don't have one here my size and they are waiting for the supplier to get one, a touch disappointing. they really do keep me busy here. once they get me up in the morning. the hard part is waiting for the nurses to come in to feed and dress me. Today and tomorrow, i have a student nurse, male, who is assigned to me and he comes in feeds me, washes me brushes my teeth, gets me dressed and does any other request i may have a great kid. It think he will make a very good nurse. Three Doctors came in today. I think they are called a Physioist and they work on the spinal cord injury floor, and they assessed me. The doctor the resident and the student, they did the A.S.I.A (american, spinal, injury assessment) by pricking me with a pin and touching me with the other end they are able to determine which sensory nerves are working or not. It seams to change every time it is done, although i think it is a bit of a subjective test because both the examiner and the respondent give subjective answers i.e. she must interpret what i mean when she compares a pin prick to my face to a pin prick on my knee, when i say they are almost the same, I guess it is a good tool for measuring sensory response over time. The Doctor also looked at my left knee very thoroughly and he doesn't think that I have a torn ACL. The MRI on Tuesday will shed more light on that. the knee is getting better day by day and is almost back to normal size.
Yesterday afternoon there was a lunch and learn about legal rights but i found that i couldn't stay in a small room with a bunch of people, never could. the Representative from the Paraplegic Association came to see me today. The Association (CPA) provides information and assistance to all spinal cord injury patients both in and out of the hospital. The representative is in a wheel chair and has been in one for 47 years. She is married has three kids, drives a car and appears to live a very normal life.
Physio today had me sitting on the edge of the table not balancing as i did in toronto, but trying to get me to engage my flexor muscles in my back. i can't believe how tiring it is sitting up for just 10 minutes. As i write this i am sitting in my chair but i will have to get back into bed soon, as i have a red sore on my back that is aggravated when i am in my chair. the bike was great again today, not quite as good as yesterday, but still feels good to turn the pedals. I just wish it was set up like a real bike, so the spindle of the pedal would be under the ball of my foot and not under the middle of my foot, but i guess that will come. I met an interesting guy today who is retired from the air force and flew air force cargo planes out of trenton and was with the Canadian NATO forces during the cold war and patrolled in fighter jets. I can't remember what jet he flew but he did mention that it was an american design built in Canada and he claimed they were the best planes there.
tonight is bowel care, which means I get to get up and sit in a Commode...yeehaw!
We are going to practice dragon naturally speaking, the voice activated software for my laptop.
talk at you later.