A Glorious Day By Marc Kind — 54 minutes ago Sky, Jordan and I ventured into Philly together for an all day visit with their mom. Jordan was his usual excited young man looking forward to hang with his mom, give her a massage and see her smile and laugh. Sky was a little uneasy but in her own discreet way I could tell she was curious to see her moms progress and quietly looking forward to seeing her. When we arrived Stace was waiting for us in the hallway, I did my usual, psssss and she turned our way and waved. I heard Sky say to Jordan, She heard dad! One of my objectives today was to get Sky more comfortable around her mom and Stacey more comfortable around her daughter. They are both worried about the other, and upset that they cant be there for each other. It breaks my heart...Stacey had a decent night sleep and she was a little less dizzy today. We worked on some exercises with her hands, legs and she ate some ice cream. I have been approved to give her pureed foods and thickened water. (By the way the ice cream she gets melts to a thickened state it is not regular ice cream that melts to a more watery liquid. Its pretty cool. When her speech therapist was explaining it to us last week I looked at Stace, the chemistry teacher and said, Its chemistry!) Back to her eating, Stacey took a few spoonfuls with her therapy spoon and I had to slow her down and keep her from taking too much with each spoonful. After this instruction she said to me, You feed me. I exclaimed back to her, No, you can do it; Youre not tired today. You feed yourself! I wasnt going to go easy on her. I also worked on Staceys left hand and after I completed stretching and massaging it we called the kids over to see her move her fingers. It was so good to see Stacey demonstrating her progress to the kids. She also verbalized that she can see that she is progressing. This is the first time she has genuinely acknowledged this fact. This is so important in restoring confidence in herself and keeping herself motivated. Stacey only cried once today. She randomly blurted out to us, I didnt think I was going to ever bake cookies with you (Sky) again but I know I can now! She got emotional about it and began to cry. I told her its okay. As she tried to calm down I thought I need to get her to a different place so I quickly said, Well I guess I better get your Kitchen Aid mixer off of eBay then! We all laughed and moved on...there were many other laughs today and all and all it was a glorious day.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:44:37 +0000
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