July 30 Thurs.

Melinda started her day at 8:30 this morning and stayed busy till 4:00. She is exhausted and very much ready to get in bed and rest. She continues to work hard in OT, PT, ST and MT(music). Yes, "Melinda has music therapy twice a week and is singing her favorite songs, which she knows word for word." ST and MT are trying different things to get her to talk louder. They want her to use an Incentive Spiro-meter(IS) that will help expand her lungs. She places her mouth around a mouth piece and tries sucking as much air in as she can. The IS will register the amount and St said, "Teenagers lungs should be able to hold in air around 1500 ml. and Melinda is doing less than 500." The IS was left with us and ST said, "We have homework." Yea! Melinda will add it to her growing list. This afternoon, Melinda had various tests run to check her vision. She has double vision and some other things going on with her eyes. OT can work on some eye exercises here, but later she will be referred to an eye specialist. Melinda will wear a translucent eye patch and alternate the patch every 2 hours to help with the double vision. Melinda said, "It helped and now I have 1 mom and not 2". We laughed so hard. Thank you for your prayers and support. God Bless.