can’t wait for the new thread… 
Yay!
Great username/post combo..
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This is really good news!
Runs around the thread, tossing confetti and sparkles in the air. This is such great news!
This is such awesome news I must post to cheer about it - and bump flatlined.
YAY!
Out-fucking-standing! YAY!
Most excellent!!! 
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Awesome news.
Well, and the cats and the TV remote and the Chee-tos as well, but your choice is indeed the most important :D.
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YAY!
Hooray! Normal is nice!
Wonderful news! I’m so glad that TOS is doing so well!
That’s fantastic news!!! I’m glad TOS is finally doing so well.
We’re into the final week. It’s kinda … surreal. It’ll be just a few weeks shy of a full half-year.
He’s still getting stronger: a week ago, while standing with a walker in the pool, he said he had to really concentrate on using his core muscles (abs, back etc.) to stay upright, and that now he can chat with the therapist while shuffling along in the water and those muscles don’t even get tired. They’ve started having him stand upright with a walker up on dry land now, too, and we’re both getting better at getting him and his chair in & out of the car, even when it’s dark and rainy like recently. (Well, rainy: it’s still getting dark early. )
He has an appnmnt. with a neurologist next week, the day before his discharge. Wonder what he’ll say; until now, nobody’s really wanted to pin down a definitive yes/no on the whole “will he ever walk again?” thing. Which I understand, but dammit I wanna know! Based on the fact that his feet do move, a bit, even on the gimpy leg, I think the pathways are still there so I’m starting to let myself think that maybe I could hope for a full recovery for him. He may limp with a cane or something, a la House, but that’ll be OK.
La la la. Me = happy.
Hooray! That is good news.
I am not a doctor, so my opinion counts for nothing, but I believe he will walk again. The body is amazingly resilient. (For instance: There is a therapy for stroke victims where they immobilize the good limb, forcing the brain to remap and allowing reuse for the paralyzed limb. Which is not to imply that this is the same thing, just giving an example of how resilient the body/brain can be.)
Here’s hoping for a full recovery.
I believe amazing things will continue to happen. A friend of mine just gained more use in her fingers, two years after a debilitating stroke. And she can suddenly walk a bit better too. It’s exciting to see how muscle control can continue to improve.
Wonderful new Purple, just wonderful.
If they say he’ll walk again, believe them.
If they say he won’t walk again, go “lalalalalala” and consider it a “maybe”.
Seriously, there are lots of things doctors know. This isn’t one of them. I have three “you’ll never walk again” patients. One of them probably *won’t *walk again; he believed them. Two of them can outpace me in the hallway, although one needs a walker on uneven surfaces like sidewalks with wheelchair ramp cutouts.
HUGE grain of salt.
I wouldn’t be so polite as to go lalalala. The appropriate reaction is “fuck THAT shit” and decide that the doctors will be proven spectacularly wrong if it’s the last thing you do (a similar attitude had me nearly screaming ‘fuck you, doctor p----’ at my son’s high school graduation last year :D).
Yay! I’m looking forward to the end of this thread and the opening of one along the lines of “Mr. Shoe is rehabbing at home!”
Thanks. It’s nice to have a place to share good news. There were times when I honestly thought I’d have to ask mods to close this thread because … well. You know. So thanks for being there with me while I went through all this.
He fell this morning - they’re required to call me, even if he’s OK. (Which he is.) He told me he’s totally fine and that the brakes jammed on the new loaner wheelchair he’s using, and is highly annoyed at having to wear a big ol “FALL RISK” bracelet now.
Anyway, I sound pessimistic about his future ability to limp/walk/climb steps because, well, I don’t like to count chickens before the damn eggs are even laid, and I don’t wanna jinx anything. But I think he’s gonna be OK.