Megan escapes from rehab!

....not really, but kind of. Megan was able to leave rehab for a little while today to go to Christopher's lacrosse game. It was a beautiful day and we even go to surprise Chris. The doctor's at rehab said that it would be good for Megan to get out before she leaves to go home on the 28th. They don't want that to be the first time she leaves. Yesterday in therapy we worked on getting Megan in and out of her wheelchair, and to and from the car without the help of any therapists so that we could do it when she left rehab. This was a success, we didn't have any trouble with transitions today from the car to the wheel chair or vice versa. Here are a couple pictures!!

Siblings :) Gotta love 'em

Megan's still soakin up the sun! 

They didn't know I was snapping this precious pic haha. The cutest trio.

Surprise! What a beautiful day for a lax game. 

Megan had OT this morning, but get this, her therapist straightened her hair for her!! What treatment. Everyone was so excited for Megan to be able to go out for a little while. That was all anybody said, nurses, therapists, etc whenever they came to see Megan. We were only out for about 3 hours, but Megan was exhausted when she got back. She took a quick nap before speech. 

She had speech, and did very well today. We started out with picture cards of items that aren't common everyday words. She did food and animals. So, it wasn't like your common apple, orange, dog, cat. It was like kiwi, burritos, beaver, and giraffe. She did pretty well with this. She needed the first sound of some of the words, but then she got them right away. There was a string of 3 or 4 cards where she got them without any help and she just laughed to herself. She was very proud! Next the therapist wanted to test to see if she was able to tell if words were spelled wrong. There were two columns and one word was spelled right and the other was incorrect. (ex. se and see, geg and egg). Megan flew through that! Her therapist was surprised. Next, Megan did an activity that was a lot harder than anything she had done with reading. She was given a direction and there were 4 words underneath and she had to pick the right word. (ex underline the fruit when given apple, car, tree, basket) They were all questions similar to that. She need a little bit more help with this, but she was able to get them all at one point. Finally, the SLP asked Megan a bunch of yes/no questions. Megan only got 1 wrong out of 12 compared to only 70% correct when they asked her yes/no questions in the ICU. When Megan first began speaking the yes/no questions were really a guessing game. Some times she would understand and other times she would just guess. I have to say I am still surprised with how much she is speaking when I am with her. It is great to see her try to work through her struggle to find a word, and then figure it out completely on her own. She is learning to give herself time to find the word, and in time getting more confidence in herself. 

Megan is still allowed to leave tomorrow, so we'll have to see what is in store for tomorrow. I believe she will be going to another one of Christopher's lacrosse game, but we'll see what else she's up for. As some of you who have come to see her know, Megan gets out of rehab in "seventeen minus four days according to Megan, or 13 days. She could not be more excited. She can't wait to retake her spot by the side of the pool sitting out in the sun for hours! We all can't wait for her to come home! That's all for now!