Only one week left to go!

Well I was planning on doing a halfway blog, but that has come and gone and now its a 2/3's blog :)
Tuesday night there was a crew of people that went around Howard and Sandra's to do some painting in their newly built guest extension, that was really fun.
Ok...Wednesday we discharged man from our services now that we can't do any more for him and he is making steady progress with the exercises he has been prescribed. He has a contracted third digit on his left hand. It is getting stronger but it will never be able to fully extend, and it is not impacting him functionally. We then saw 2 patients we also saw last week to see how they were going. The first lady has Parkinson's and we had found a hand splint that would support her fingers and wrist and hopefully reduce the rate of deterioration. The family was happy for us to go ahead order one for each hand, so that has been done. We then checked on our dear little lady with lymphodaema swelling and has been prescribed a compression vest. She doesn't love it but after discussing the benefits, we found a happy medium and she wore it for a few hours. I with the care nurse from Blue Care, helped put it on. We'll wait to hear how she goes this week. When we got back to the hospital Penny taught me to do lymphodeama swelling bandaging and I nailed it. She said it was a little complicated to get the hang of...got it first time :D

Wednesday was my halfway day, so I was assessed. I'm passing everything and both Penny and Geraldine gave me some really positive feedback. I got a few marks of insufficient because I haven't had the opportunity to to be assessed in those areas. But we aren't concerned it should happen within this next week. That evening a few of us ladies went to Jono and Rach's place to do some cleaning...it's an ex-boys house and it was in need of some serious cleaning.

We also wondered if they wanted us to check if their presents were satisfactory, we may have opened a few...

Jokes, we'll leave it to them.
Yesterday was another great day in the hospital. We did a home assessment for a guy who had been recently discharged. Between Penny and I, I probably did 40% of the talking to the client. So that was good, we worked really well together. We saw another lady who was having issues with her compression bandages so we gave her some more equipment and handy tips. Dad I'm wondering if a compression bandage might help reduce the pain in your varicose veins. We saw an inpatient who was fairly well asleep and is probably going to go into a nursing home. So we were looking at his discharge plan...no plans as yet, we'll wait until he's more awake and family are present. That night (last night) I went over to Mike and Karen Collier's for dinner. Mike was in Warwick for choir, so it was just Karen and I. We had a very lovely evening together, enjoying a meal and sharing various points where the Lord has met us, so that was lovely.
This morning was prayer meeting, different style to the Gymps, but still good. Then today I was with Geraldine and I presented a little talk to some of the mums whose sons we have been assessing. So that was really good. Geraldine said I did really well. We did a new assessment of a young boy how had been referred to us from his school teacher. Following the assessment Geraldine and I discussed the results and I was able to draw on different pieces of knowledge learnt from uni to help me understand what she was talking about. So it was quite a consolidating day of information learned and uni and real life scenarios. So it was a great day, feeling more and more confident :)
Oh and this is a fairly regular occurrence of an afternoon when Guy gets home :D

Look forward to seeing most of you at Mark and Ris's wedding tomorrow...really looking forward to it!!!!! :)