Sometimes things work and sometimes they don’t, but at the
end of it we have more data to go on. As
a computer programmer I want to know all the data points and see if I can get
it all charted out and make sense of it all.
The down side to me being a computer programmer it is not that simple,
every person is different and every day is different. The past week has been good and bad. The days have been up and they’ve been
down. Cody has been doing well overall
for the most part. It has been a nice
break. We have, for the most part, been
able to stay ahead of the race.
Friday Jaime went to Cody’s outing to the shopping area and
of course everything worked fine. He hung
out with his friends and there were no issues, but I am glad Jaime was there anyway. It was a long day for him but he did
great. No issues at all. After the field trip he had “practice” for the
awards assembly show he is part of during the last week of school. It’s a kind of talent show. He has been staying at school for nearly 2
weeks now until 5:30 PM working on this show.
This Friday was no different. He
left there that night and hurried over to a friend’s house. It was his best friend’s birthday party. They went to see the Captain America movie
and spent the evening at his friend’s house.
He wasn’t going to stay the whole night but things changed.
We had been dosing him higher for the abnormal day. There was a sleep over that was originally scheduled was scheduled as a tent sleep over and
we weren’t comfortable with Cody doing that so we originally said no to the
sleepover. It rained most the night so
the sleepover moved inside and we allowed him to stay at his friend’s
house. We continued to dose him high for
the late night and waited for him to return home Saturday morning.
Saturday morning, he came home. He looked a little low but we had no plans so
we had him rest and we prepared his “weekend baseball practice” dosage. He finished the rest of the day laggy but not
bad. He was just a little tired. I actually think he was just tired from the
last couple days. The day was pretty
much a day of no consequence.
Sunday came and we continued his dosage schedule. It’s time for baseball practice and he’s
ready to play. I tried to run practice a
little different today. Not so
aggressive and a little on the easy side.
You see we have a tournament on the 20th – 22nd
and I don’t know yet how his body is going to handle a minimum of 3 games in a
2 to 3 day period. So I thought if I
slowed it down to a game speed and work him as hard as he would work in a game
we might get a better feel for how he is going to do after an actual game. We conducted our hour and a half practice by
varying speeds and mixing it up. The
result actually worked out rather well. I was able to get a baseline for a simulated
game and he did rather well. I hope this
data converts to a real game, but we still have to factor in the stress of it
being a real tournament. There is no way
to know but hope it all works out the way we plan it to go.
He came home after practice a bit tired, but again not so
tired I thought he was crashing but rather just tired from the day. He actually finished some homework and then
began to play ball in the hallway for the next hour and a half. We had dinner and he went to his room and
played some basketball, and “worked out”.
He actually went to his room and did some sit-ups and lifting with his
barbell he has for some strength training.
Again I felt like this was a successful test. Now let’s hope it works on a bigger scale
across a 3-day period. I have contacted
his physician to make sure this 1-day practice plan is acceptable to blow up to
a 3 or 4 day plan for prep and recovery.
