Ellie is progressing quite nicely walking with her canes! Here she is, about 3 months after her Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy, and about 2 1/2 months since she first started working with these canes.
At first she just practiced pulling herself up and just standing with her canes. One time I visited them in Florida, she made a big breakthrough by standing 90 seconds by herself with her canes. NOW look at her!!! According to her mom, all the therapist is doing is “helping Ellie with stabilizing the canes on the ground as Ellie brings them to the floor.”
I did that once with Ellie too, and really, all you do is put your hand over top of hers on the canes, and away she goes with you in tow behind her!
It’s taken me 3 weeks of off and on work, but I think I have FINALLY gone through every post on this blog and removed the extra wonky characters that weren’t supposed to be there but got inserted when the blog was recreated from the back-up files.
More importantly, I have also found all the pictures that belonged to the blog posts, and uploaded all of those again. THAT was the really big project, and quite time consuming.
If those boogers ever delete another one of my blogs, I think I will go camp on their doorsteps and curse them with my presence, ha!
And now, since a post on Ellie’s blog without a picture of our cute Miss Ellie just won’t do, here ya go…
Ellie "working" on her laptop computer.
Ellie loves it when we both sit on the couch and work on our laptops!
Ellie is still in Florida getting intensive therapy every weekday. She is making a lot of progress. Day to day it may seem slow, but when you look back and realize how far she’s come since she had her surgery… WOW!
Being in Florida has advantages! Ellie gets to do her own sort of aquatic therapy by going swimming in the pool at the condo complex where they are staying. Here she is in the pool exactly 12 weeks after surgery. . .
Our Little Mermaid!
She’s been in the pool for weeks now. See those little legs kicking?
Exercise the fun way!
She loves going swimming! When they go back to Canada in June, I feel certain she will miss essentially having a pool in the backyard.
She’s swimming, she’s walking with canes, she’s made a lot of progress since her surgery!
Go Ellie!
