UVA Constraint Therapy ~ Day 10

Well we have kicked off the last week of constraint therapy…although given the conditions on the research study Reagan will be doing all bi-manual tasks this week and will not wear the splint at all.  Although I am extremely disappointed that I feel like we're "losing" an entire week, I am a psychologist at heart who knows the value of research and I understand the process.  No matter how you look at it, however, she's is getting almost 9 hours of therapy this week and that's 8 hours more than she would get if we were at home.  So it's still a win in my book!

She had a fun session today doing more work with the marbles and tube and building a "cranky" box.  Given it's still drying, I will wait to post pictures until tomorrow and keep that project a surprise.  To give you a hint it involves a Tinkerbell Adventure, a green cardboard box and a crank.

Cole had a lot of fun playing with the new train set that was delivered to the waiting room.  He was enamored with it!  And lucky for us he was well entertained since our hotel room wasn't ready until after 3pm.  I was only able to get him on the therapy schedule on Wednesday and Friday so today was all play time for Cole!

After therapy we were able to finally check into our room and then did a little shopping.  First we went to Birds Unlimited and unfortunately there were no birds or bird food…bizarre as that sounds.  And apparently our "touchy fingers" apparently did not make us ideal shoppers so we quickly exited the store before I said something rude and the police had to be called.  Then we found a music store nearby that was a little more "forgiving" but it was still a LOT of temptation to play all those beautiful…and expensive…instruments and after purchasing a triangle and a rubbing stick we exited quickly to find dinner.  Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the new musical instruments for our stage in the basement at home, but I will try to post some tomorrow.