Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Weekly Update -- 21 - 27 July 2008

Yay, I'm 81 weeks old today!

Masinja worked pretty hard at PT this week. He wants to walk so badly that he tries to get as far as he can as fast as he can. The problem is he still doesn't quite have enough balance. He ends up doing face plants more often than not! This week his therapist put weights around his legs in an attempt to force him to slow down and focus on his balance. It worked really well while he had the weights on, although he did get kind of tired because he walked from the clinic out to the lobby of the hospital and back again. His therapist said that he would most likely revert back to his old ways as soon as we took the weights off, and sure enough, that is exactly what he did :O) He isn't quite confident enough to walk on his own yet either. About the only way he will walk is if he is holding someone's hands. Actually he likes to hold your index fingers and he squeezes so hard that they turn purple!! We are trying to get him to hold only one hand and most of the time he will relinquish one hand quite readily but some days he just doesn't want to cooperate.

Next week we will be going on a road trip to Ohio. We are going to visit Masinja's Uncle Gary, cousins Taylor and Jordan, Uncle Sean and Aunt Joyce. We are also going to see one of Masinja's three sets of Godparents. When we went on a roadtrip last year he was pretty content so let's just hope he is just as content this time!!

That's all for now.

Peace,
T.M.M.

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