Monday's update late

Lots of talking and walking yesterday.

Courtney was eating vanilla ice cream in the morning and we were talking about other foods Courtney might want to eat. She said 'maybe next time you could just order ***(unclear word). I asked 'pizza?' headshake no. 'chinese food?' headshake no. Then she began frantically looking around so I asked 'do you want to write it down?' Headshake yes. Courtney then wrote something that looked like the word 'chocolate' so I asked 'do you mean next time I could just bring chocolate ice cream?' - vigorous headshake yes!

Later when she was walking and she looked a bit pale Alissa asked her if she was feeling dizzy. Courtney shook her head yes. We brought Courtney into a therapy room so that Alissa could take her blood pressure. As Alissa was taking Courtney's blood pressure she looked up at us and said 'not now before when I was in the shower'.

Courtney communicated this morning that she would be watching the innauguration at noon.

There's still alot of work to be done on speech, cognition and eating. Although Courtney is speaking in sentences she's not always verbalizing. These are the things she'll be working on in the coming days and weeks.