Update on Pa (and a Mini Update on Ma)

Pa has improved dramatically in the last month. He no longer needs physical or occupational therapy. He'll go once a week for speech therapy, maybe around 4 sessions.

Today he went back to work. Fifteen patients showed up. Busy day. He plans to stick to his old schedule of 5 hours a day, 4 days a week. Ma & Tito Lum helped out at the office.

Leg

He can walk without a cane. His balance isn't quite there yet (he can't stand on one leg), but it's improving.
 
Arm

•  He can drive. Ma insists that he stay off the freeway for now.
• He can play the piano, kind of. Nothing like before. He can do octaves and can play only two notes at a time. But he practices daily and is steadily improving. The arthritis in his fingers is getting to be a problem though.
• He can write slowly. Uppercase printing is fine. Cursive writing isn't legible yet.
  

Face/Head

• His swallowing is back to normal. The feeding tube was taken out two weeks ago. It hadn't been used in a month.
• He still has facial droop. This is the most visible sign of his stroke and may never go away entirely. He will get speech therapy for this.
• Speech is still a little slurred due to the facial droop.

Update on Ma

Ma is on physical therapy for her legs. She walks so slowly and with a cane. We're hoping therapy will make a difference. She used to have numbness in her legs, but it went away after she started exercising.