Sandy is back!!!

Well today Karter's physiotherapist returned from her seemingly long 8 week vacation. We were so pleased to have her back to assist us with Karter's motor development. The long and short of our visit was that we will continue to focus on the rolling. In addition to that, he will continue to work on more head and trunk control, weight baring on his hands and arms and grasping and grabbing at objects. We will also start working on sitting. Sandy gave us about five or six excercises to focus on each day to aid in all these areas.

I asked once again for some guidelines for realistic expectaions for Karter's development, a timeline of sort. Of course we cannot predict with any child when they will do something becasue of all the external factors like sickness and such, but I wanted to have some sort of idea of what was realsitc for me to expect in six months etc. Sandy of course was hesitant to say in a year he will walk in six months he will crawl etc., but she did say that it would be realistic to think that in six months he could sit on his own, hold his head up and support his body weight on his tummy by his hands while playing with toys etc. That of course also can depend too on if he remains healthy and has no other major set backs physically. We have been told to look at surgery as kind of a "re-birth" for Karter. A starting place for his development. Of course Karter could do things quicker than that depending on how motivated he is too. We are praying that he will amaze us!

Now that surgery is over and we have not seen any seizures, I am comitted to go hard at it each day with is therapy. He is showing progress in many areas outside of his motor development and that leads me to know that he is fully capable of learning and retaining new things.

The feeding is still going exceptionally well. This evening for dinner he ate the same supper as the family...meatballs, whole wheat pasta and corn (chopped up of course). I am thrilled with how well he is doing in this area. The gag reflex has really dumbed itself down PTL! He has fully been switched to milk and we seem to have not irritation or reactions to this point, so we are happy about that as well.

Well I think that is it for today, just thought I would let you know what has been happening this past while with Karter.

Thanks for your continued prayers, they continue to sustain us in this new journey of recovery. Our prayer as we lay Karter to rest each night is that the Lord will continue to heal his body and bring it back to its fully restored self. We also ask each night that Karter would rest peacfully so as to give him strength to take on the next day and that all his hard work that day would be rewarded by the strengthening of each muscle in his body the next day.