Hi everyone, I am an outpatient physical therapist and I have a patient that I have been seeing 2x a week since October that suffered 3 strokes. He was told that what he did not have back in 2 years he would never get back. When he started with me in PT, it had already been almost 2 full years and he is still making gains each week! I am sooooo proud of his progress. Each visit he comes in with his wife who has the best heart, such a sweet couple. He was only able to walk with a hemi walker short distances and now we are walking with a quad cane and I am just standing by and he is able to walk 160' prior to fatigue. He is now able to negotiate stairs as well, able to lift the right leg using mainly hip musculature. His right hand is deformed at this point but I am starting to work with dynamic motions and passively he has the range so hoping with the use of electrical stimulation and some hard homework we can maybe get something back there. Anyway, with father's day coming up, I really wanted to get him something to say "you are strong/you have what it takes/you have achieved beyond what others expected" type of gift. I think this would motivate him to keep moving forward and it would be nice for him to have for when we aren't seeing each other anymore. He loves coffee, the yankees, reading - politics/history/biographies/the way things work/mechanics, riding his bike at home....Thanks for any ideas! <3 via /r/Gifts https://www.reddit.com/r/Gifts/comments/bzb1jz/strength_drive/?utm_source=ifttt
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