Hello wonderful friends and family,
Rebecca here! Updating the blog with a couple of days worth of news...
Mum, Erin and I spent a night in the Sofitel in Brisbane city on Friday night - it was a voucher kindly given to us by the USQ - for some relaxation and girly time. We had a wonderful night!
Saturday afternoon we all went to Uncle Mark and Aunty Sue's place for a BBQ. When I got there Dad was already having a go at Mark's Nintendo Wii, playing tennis! He loved it and when he got the hang of holding onto the remote gave us a real run for our money. (Off track a little but Dad is involved in a research program run by UQ students studying the advantages of interactive games, such as the Wii, in the recovery of spinal injury patients). I can see that little things like this game do really help, as a fun way of ranging and exercising his arms. Earlier on Saturday before Dad got in the taxi the nursing staff emptied his catheter bag, which wasn't very full and asked him if he wanted to take any more "overflow bags" just in case but he didn't think he would need it. Later on Dad managed to produce 3 whole bags of urine...which because we didn't take any bags...had to water Mark's lawn. While it was being emptied Dad let out a sigh of relief "ahhh"...even though he can't really feel it.
Sunday Nan and Pop came to visit in the morning and Mum and Erin headed back to Toowoomba in the afternoon. Kath and Pat joined Dad, Joey and I to watch the footy Grand Final. We ordered pizza and took over the lounge room in the spinal ward..which has the only big screen TV. Very enjoyable evening...Go the Storm!!
I spent Monday with Dad and took a few photos of the eventful day.
Dad got a new trial chair! It is electric this time. After only being in it for half an hour Dad says "I feel guilty when I see other people in push chairs...I'm being lazy". But it gave him so much freedom and a well deserved break for his arms. I could not stop him once he got going...I had to jog to keep up with him. It is the first motorised vehicle he has driven since the accident and he is starting to appear as Flyan Bryan once again!!
Now that he had proper wheels he wasn't going to let the walls of the spinal unit keep him in he wanted to get out and about. So I walked/ran and he motored on down to the shopping centre to buy Mum a birthday present.
Some beautiful flowers!!
Mum's birthday was yesterday and she went back up to Brisbane to spend the day with Dad. They went to the Norm for dinner last night.
I will get Mum to upload some more pics of us playing the Wii at Uncle Mark's during the week.
Love to you all
Rebecca and family xoxo
Hi Bryan
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear your getting out and about mate, and nice to see that smile on your dial Bryan. Loki said he got down to see you. He's been wanting to for a while and said it was great to catch up with you.
Take care mate. Will try to catch you on Skype. Hi to Julie and the Girls.
Cheers Russell and Narelle.
Greetings to all in Brissyland, Wow - look at you Bryan zooming around on your new wheels. Zoom zoom zoom!!!!!! You are looking great Bryan - keep up the good work!!! Have you missed me? Sorry went away for a few lazy days at Palm Beach. aaaahhhhh . (back to reality now!) Have a few laughs for you:
ReplyDeleteThe minister just had all of his remaining teeth pulled and new dentures were being made. The first Sunday, he only preached for 10 minutes.
The second Sunday he preached for only 20 minutes.
But, on the third Sunday, he preached for 1 hour 25 minutes!!!
When asked about this by some of the congreation, he responded this way;
The first Sunday, my gums were so sore it hurt to talk;
The second Sunday, my dentures were hurting a lot;
The third Sunday, I accidentally grabbed my wife's dentures.........and I couldn't stop talking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) Take care and keep on keeping on! Love the Murphy Clan. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x