Woof! - Aria MacDonald

Woof!

19 Dec at 1:44 pm by Hamish MacDonald

Today was a good day for Asher. I know this is an Aria blog but today was a more interesting day for Asher.

However, before we get to Asher’s day I’ll update you on Aria. Aria is about the same, she has good days and bad days and today wasn’t one of her best. She had a not so great experience with a physical therapist today. The one who had been doing some good stuff with Aria has left on maternity leave, the replacement today didn’t do such a good job, Aria was quite traumatised by the experience and we were definitely not impressed. Hopefully things won’t go like that again or we’ll be asking for a new PT.

I was on Asher duty today, we have been keeping him away from PICU because of his dodgy tummy. I get a text from Anita saying that Aria wants Asher to come down to level 2 of the hospital to see some dogs. Once a week some dogs come in for some Pet Therapy. It was very sweet of Aria to think of Asher and Asher loved it. There were three dogs there, two little fluff balls and a larger dog. Aria is a bit scared of dogs so only watched from a distance, but she did enjoy watching Asher as he hugged, shook hands and patted the dogs. When the big dog had to go, he even followed it halfway down the corridor to the exit.

After this Asher and I decided that we would go outside for a walk. We need to sort out bank accounts, and there is a bank right outside the hospital so I wandered down there. There is still quite a bit of snow on the ground and the temperature was hovering around freezing. However I like the cold and Asher is starting to get used to it (helped by a big thick Jacket he just got). We had a good experience at the bank and I will be able to get the accounts open on Monday hopefully. As the bank is close to the hospital it has exposure to and experience in handling internationals needing bank accounts.

After that we wandered further to the magical golden arches (McDonald’s). Asher had been pointing to them from Aria’s room for about a week now and I must confess to a weakness for Mickey D’s so we went and got some early dinner. I have to say it was exactly like NZ Mcd’s except they have Dr Pepper and Blue Powerade as options in their drink fountains, YUM (powerade not Dr Pepper).

Anyway it was great to go for a walk and get the bank accounts lined up for next week.

If you haven’t seen Aria’s article in the Dominion Post yet, you can see it here.