Thursday was a good day. The new aide is really working hard with Chris in regards to the exercises that need to be done. She also told me that she had gone to school to be a physical therapist but never completed the course. You can really see it in the way she works with Chris.

That evening we had celebrated our daughter's birthday. After our company had left, while I was getting Chris ready for bed he just started to cry. Our daughter is very good with him and she had started talking to him - Chris stated that he was upset because he is not making any progress - which is totally incorrect. The amount of progress that he has made in 3 months is unbelievable. So after talking to Wendy for awhile, he calmed down and I had put him to bed. I had gone to the kitchen to finish cleaning up and he started crying again. So I went in and sat at the side of his bed and we started talking.

Chris is very mad that he had the strokes. He is mad at what they have done to him and again told me that he hasn't made any progress. We talked for about 45 minutes.

I had told him that there is a support group for survivors and caregivers at our local hospital and I wanted him to think about going. I also told him to think about possibly getting a counselor to talk to. He told me that he would think about about these things and let me know what he wanted to do.

I really feel that the support group would really help him. He only had alittle counseling in the nursing home which I don't think helped him very much.

Friday his attitude was very good. He once again worked very hard at his exercises and today (Saturday) he also had a good day.

I'm glad he got his feelings out and I really hope he deceides to go to the support group, I will go with him because I think there is alot for the both of us to learn. After listening to him I don't think at this point that Chris has excepted what the stroke has done to him physically.