Lawrence’s ONH Blog

Tuesday, July 21

July 21st, 2009

Hi to everyone! We are doing great over here. Sunday, we venutred out on our own. We went walking to Century Park. We rode on paddle boats, wich was great; Lawrence and I peddled while Emani steered. We had lots of fun. This park has many statues and Olympic monuments. Lawrence was able to identify some of the colors on the statues.
We found a french bakery and Lawrence got a chocolate donut, while Emani and I got a muffin. It was really yummy! We also passed by many other little shops and strolled through them.
For dinner, we decided to go to a Korean restaurant across the street from the hospital. It was okay. Lawrence really enjoyed the food and meat. Emani couldn’t eat the meat and I thought it was okay. We are becoming more advenurous in our eating!
I decided to start testing Lawrence’s vision with paper and markers. We did a variety of things yesterday. I made a large “L ” (about the size of an 8x 10 paper with a black crayon), but he was not able to see it. Then I wrote a 4-inch “L” with black marker and made it about 1/2 inch thick. He was able to see that it was an “L” about 5 inches from his eyes. I also had him trace it with his fingers. Then I closed the curtain to our room and showed it to him and he needed it 2 inches from his eyes. So, we figured he needs a lot of light to see the letters. We are soooooooo excited!!!! Since Lawrence doesn’t know much of the print alphabet, except his intitials, I made his initials the same size and he was able to make them out at the same distance.
Our friend June from Switzerland, came in with her computer, since it has a larger screen than mine. We tried the lettters there. She made an “A ” about 350 font and he could tell it was a triangle, and figured it was an “A’”. However, he can see the glare off the screen, which makes it harder for him. So, we will be using paper to test different things daily. Emani is very excited to be his “teacher” and teach him the alphabet. Lawrence says ” this feels more amazing than I ever dreamed it would”.
He had his IV in the afternoon. “Lucky Numnber 7″, as he states.

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