Day 38: It's the Final Saturday

I hope that giving that title doesn't tempt fate. We have Tuesday in the paperwork and part of his PT session this morning was doing the assessments to confirm he has met his goals. Apparently that includes checking he can get himself up if he falls. I get it that they want to know if he can get up, but pushing my kid over seems rude.

Opposite to yesterday, Charlie was almost hyper today. He wanted me to film him so he could make a commercial. He had the idea of the commercial at about 8:45 and the edited version was up on YouTube by 9:15, I think. No post-production worries on this one.


We did logos and flags. During the flags, Charlie was telling me that he would prefer it if more countries put their map on their flag like Cyprus and Kosovo do.

After a short OT session in the afternoon, Charlie's mood took a bit of a dive. He came back hot and quiet. Then, within a few hours he mentioned that he might need to throw up... then did. All contained and under control but still upsetting.

He was a lot better after and even agreed to order some pasta for dinner. He didn't eat it, though.

At some point between 8 and 9, he was in his pajamas and had brushed his teeth and was settling in to sleep when he called out for the sick bag again. This was a bit messier but, thankfully, there's a crowd of people who are trained for this stuff and he had a clean bed and was tucked in and asleep by 9. He slept all night without any further incident.

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