America Day 19 - TheraSuit Session 16

Mummy hasn't been taking as many photos as usual this week, it is her week to learn all my exercises so she has been working too!

This is me practicing my power kicks. I need to lift up, and push down like I am taking a step. The weight around my ankle is to help my muscles grow big and strong!

I was tired today and being strapped up to do some work in the spider was not what I wanted to do

And to top it all off we worked on four point. Chris mentioned that he has never come across anyone that disliked doing four point as much as me!

Trying to support my own weight all by myself is hard. I need to learn to hold on to a bar and hold myself up independently before I can learn to use a walker and take steps on my own

America Day 18 - HBOT sessions 34 & 35

Today was our last 2 sessions at the South Lyon office of Oxford Hyperbarics. Tami and Bruce are always so happy to see me and have noticed how much I have changed - even in the last week. I am so active in the chamber now and I am vocalising too. I am making so many more sounds!

Yes, I am noisy and wriggly! (and a little poo machine in there lately too - pee yew! lol)

America Day 17 - Kaufman Center Session 6

I started the hour with a swing in the big chair, before moving on to some other things.

We tried going into a darkened room that had apple sauce on a light box. Jessica thought that it might help me to see it better and hoped I might be keen to touch and taste it. I wasn't keen at all, but it was worth a try!

I am trying a few different things to help me with sealing my lips. This spoon has been in the freezer!

I am starting to like the ice too!

And the straw!

I had a really good drink too! I am listening to a cd that has a special beat. One that is supposed to get me in the rhythm of breathe, suck, swallow.

America Day 17 - TheraSuit Session 15

Today's session marks 3 weeks of intensive therapy at the Pediatric Fitness Center. A total of 45 hours of hard work.

This is Chris working on my leg muscles, he is showing me how my legs need to move to walk.

 Lift, pull up and push forward and down.

Then we moved on with reciprical leg exercises, one leg lifts and pushes the weight down, then the other does the same straight after.

I am working on rolling to my right and pushing up to elbow prop. I can do this pretty well already with my left, but my right side is so weak, I barely use it

Everyday I am getting better with my balance. The exercises are getting easier every day for me to do. When I stand up nice and straight I can have a spoon of food - yes that is yoghurt on my face!

The day has been finishing on a high note! I am really loving going out on the bike!

America Day 17 - HBOT Sessions 32 & 33

Rolling right along with HBOT! I have done 33 sessions at 2.0 atmospheres, the equivilant of being 33 feet under water. I had a little bit of a bright yellow runny nose today. It has confirmed for Mummy that it is infection leaving. I had a touch of the sniffles today and it cleared up quickly after my sessions.

America Day 16 - TheraSuit Session 14

Chris is working me hard with these new exercises!

I am starting to get better at them too! This is all me. I did have some help to stablise, but I could mantain it for a bit today - with out arm splints!

I am learning to stand on my own two feet too! No splints in sight! It takes some big muscles to stand tall.

My balance is getting better too. Chris is holding me fairly low on my legs. The rest is me!

This one was hard and I didn't like it at all. Holding myself up while standing up with nothing to help my legs was lots of work!

Before we went home we went for a ride. It was a beautiful day and it was so much fun to peadle! Chris said it was me peadling a bit, because the bike kept moving when really it should have stopped if I wasn't trying.

America Day 16 - HBOT Sessions 30 & 31

I was a bit cranky this morning. I was miserable and irritable and I didn't really know what I wanted to do... After we pressurised a smell started to waft through... I did a whopper of a HBOT poo in the chamber! It was so large it filled my nappy and went on the sheets... Sheila could smell it from the outside... I was very happy after that!

This afternoon I was back to my old wriggly self, tapping on the glass!