Thursday, September 4

Today things seem to be getting back on track. Heather, who is filling in for Barb this week for Tommy's OT sessions, reported that this morning Tommy was far more talkative than he's been before, and that he made her laugh. "I asked him if he was growing a beard," she told me when I arrived at Ren rehab; "and he said yes. So I asked, 'Do you want to shave it off?' And he said, 'No--I don't want to ruin my image'"! She did help him to trim his beard, however, which he did quite well. In the afternoon Elaine and Alan arrived, once again bearing a big box of tomatoes and green peppers from their garden, and they joined Tommy at dinner.