Day 2 brought on a much happier boy. We started our morning with heat packs to warm up his muscles. He arrived to intensive in a okay mood, but once in the stander he was quite content. He did not need mommy to hold his hand, it was all about checking out his own.
Next he was on the table, disliking his massage and compression exercises. This surprised me but I think he really wanted to stay standing for a bit longer.
On with the benik and walking in the hart walker, which was a tearful experience. He was fighting doing the work but it's only day 2 and I am still stoked from seeing such a happy boy standing up, with a bit less support than day 1. I swung him on the platform for a bit while his therapist got the therasuit ready for him.
He smiled so big and cute during his strengthening, he loved it today! After his leg and arm strengthening, we made our way to the flat table and he did massive sit ups (90) and used the peanut ball to do some more (another 90 with arms out and behind him)...some rolling and some sitting, he loved sitting but still fell backwards when he brought his head up...but its an amazing start!
He had a good 30 minute lunch break with me, part of which he lent sympathy tears to the girls who were disliking doing their work out...
The last part of our day was more stretching and finally cannon ball position...he fell asleep the entire duration of cannon ball...and after being home for a bit he has not napped a full nap yet, I am hopeful for an early bed time...
Looking forward to tomorrow!
"As a parent of a child with special needs we need to enjoy our kids for who they are not for who they could have been"
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