> he needs to accept his paralysis and learn to live with it.
NONSENSE ! !
That is an **occupational therapy** facility, not a **physical
therapy** facility. Consider getting him out of there.
I'll calm down long enough to admit their advice is slightly
appropriate. The task of physical therapy is to help him get
better, to recover capability. The task of occupational therapy
is to help him learn to function without full capabilities.
When I was in rehab, I was determined to recover, and I
slighted OT as "a waste of time." Not so; that was a mistake.
Recovery is apt to be very, very slow, so he will need to know
how to function, "how to live with it" ***as he recovers***.
I should write more, but I have to run.
I had a spinal stroke that paralyzed me start-to-finish in
30 minutes.
My story is in
http://www.myelitis.org/tmic/archive/17/0091.html
http://www.myelitis.org/tmic/archive/20/0639.html
A picture,
http://www.myelitis.org/tmic/members/page5.htm
taken last March shows me standing at the dump,
soliciting votes for a new library.
Alton, who is still recovering 23 months later