Wednesday, October 28, 2009

working hard

In physical therapy Ava's skills have outgrown the pony and she's now using a rifton pacer. We are hoping she'll be ready for a kaye or crocodile walker (with a saddle) by Christmas. She still needs too much trunk support right now. Ava's muscles give out after a few minutes.

Another big issue is her left side. I'm posting a video of her today in PT. You'll notice by the end she is dragging her left foot and her left side is "off". We've been watching this for several months now. The effects of her cerebral palsy are worse on her left side.



She does seem to like the pacer a lot. She even waved at another parent, goofy girl:)

5 comments:

He & Me + 3 said...

she is so cute. I love to see her moving all over the place. She did great. I noticed that wave. So sweet.

Alicia said...

In spite of the left side issues, she looks like she is doing GREAT!!!! You can really tell she is working hard!

I giggled when she waved to the lady, so precious!

Thanks for the smile this morning, Sweet Ava!!

The VW's said...

There she goes! :)

Great job Ava! That looks like fun and lots of hard work too! Keep it up sweet girl!

Sarah said...

Hope check out this post http://lovethatmax.blogspot.com/2009/11/help-i-cant-stop-organizing-plus-first.html on Ellen's blog. She might be able to help you out with a gait trainer.

Disclaimer: I have no idea if it's even close to the same thing. They didn't exist when I could've used one so I'm just guessing & networking.

Ellen said...

Hi, Hope. It is nice to meet you and your beautiful kids. Sarah suggested I come by here; I already gave away the gait trainer, but I'm planning to do more Special Needs Swap Shops (as I'm calling them). Email me to let me know what you're looking for, I can put them up in my next Swap Shop post! lovethatmax@gmail.com