Weekly Routine

 Mike is walking 2x a day, doing home exercises, and going to PT 2x a week.  

This is all to work on his physical conditioning, strengthening his limbs, and improving his balance and stride.

The day starts with breakfast around 8am, and he is still using the magnifying glass to read the comics and the paper. 


The hyperbaric therapy has changed his eyesight.  They suggested that it would come back to his original eyesight after several weeks but it has been a month now....

and he still cannot see well.  So we will be going to the ophthalmologist on Monday to see what they suggest and perhaps get a new refraction.  


After breakfast, he may rest in his recliner chair,

and when Maria comes, they go out for a walk.

They are getting to know the neighborhood, up Alta Vista to Micheltorena on to Sola. Or across the street, through the High School, and back on Nopal.  

There are variations on those themes.  




He will work on the computer, he checks his email, reads the Irish Times, and he is drafting profiles on El Pilar for me!!  








On his second walk, He
will check the mail for it usual late delivery....



And once back will take a nap after the long day!

If I have gone to campus, I try to get back aroud 4pm whenMAria takes off.  Dinner around 6pm and maybe we take in a documentary, like we did the other night on Katharine Graham.  Mike prefers to go upstairs to bed by 8pm. 

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