Advice not sought on therapy solutions...

I love that so many of my family members are so optimistic about Jace...but if I hear one more person tell me to try connective healing or a surgery, or something that they saw or read about because it helped another kid with CP walk, I may just scream...because that particular kid could already walk, damage was in a different part of the brain, there are several different types of cerebral palsy.

I don't think they realize that I spent the first three years looking into surgeries, treatments, asking questions about what I should be doing and researching until all hours of the night. Yes, it is great that the connective healer on Dr. Oz just now helped a child with CP to walk. However, that child could already walk, his walking improved. There are a ton of treatment programs out there that might work, but as his caregiver, I have had to pick and choose what benefits him most now, what does insurance pay for (all of this is costly) and what can he handle, he is only 6. I am not trying to "fix" him. Cerebral Palsy does not just vanish, but it does not become worse.

 I am sure connective healing has benefits and maybe one day, I will look into it further. I am much more interested in adding aquatic therapy and hippotherapy to his programs. He will probably progress out of his hart walker and into a pacer over the next two years, which is really an awesome goal! Without the therapy he has now, he would not even have the hart walker. There is really a reason for the programs that we do currently. I'd love to do it all, but he's still only 6, this is a lot as it stands and I am nervous about it being too much. Since he's not a mobile child though, aquatic therapy will be wonderful, would love that every other week and maybe hippotherapy every other week into the fall.