Anne is doing something amazing! She is starting to crawl.
I sound like a first-time mom talking about her 7 month old :-)
Seriously, last summer, when Anne was in Therasuit therapy, one of the exercises they did with Anne was to get her on all fours on the treadmill and physically move her hands and knees in a crawling position. Not only could she TOTALLY NOT do that movement on her own, but she screamed the entire time, seriously, she screamed.
Now, she can transition from side sit up to all fours (or I should say three’s – because her left arm cannot straighten all the way to the floor) and she can move her knees… right, left and then she falls. But she’s doing it!
I’m continually amazed at the complexity of the brain and how just how much damage Anne sustained. A healthy brain controls the muscles necessary for crawling without the person even “thinking” about it. It’s taken Anne over two years of healing to regain the (limited) use of some of those muscles. But the healing is still happening. And it’s exciting :-)
Yeah!!!! So exciting. Thanks for sharing!
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Woo hoo!! Go Anne!!
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Amen! Go Anne!
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Rejoicing with you!! XO (Ps, love the new blog, may try to read some along with you!!)
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Thanks Helen! I was hoping someone would read a little with me :-)
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yea!!!!!!! God is good – even when He seems so very slow! :)
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Our brains are amazing! Our capacity to heal, to re-route….breathtaking.
Hooray, Anne! Good for you, Sweetie!
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