Very Excited!

Today we had our telephone interview with the President of the NACD (National Academy of Child Development,) and I am very excited after speaking with Mr. Doman! We sent him a video we had recorded earlier this week of the things Luke is doing: his sounds, his range of motion, him eating, etc. Then today on the phone interview he asked more questions about Luke. From what he saw on the video and what we told him, he feels a whole lot of what was in Luke's brain before the accident is still there. That just means there is a lot of function to recover. He said it is basically like if your foot is asleep it will not work; Luke's whole body is asleep so we need to retrain the brain where the body is, so it can function. What he is going to do is design a program for us to do with Luke at home. He will send us a DVD of the program, then we do it. His exact words were we are going to sock it to him almost to the point of exhaustion, so the program will be very intense. There will be a lot of stimulation to every body part. He said the more often you input to the brain what it needs to do, the more likely you are going to get the brain to do it. When I told him about Luke's eyes not opening and not responding to light, he said that is even part of the program to retrain the brain how the eyes work. After talking to him, I am very excited about the program and the thinking behind their program. He also said communication with them is very important so they can tweak the program if he is responding too much or not enough with what we are doing.

If you want to read more about the NACD, you can go to http://www.nacd.org/, at the very bottom in the fine print if you click on testimonials, there is one that says Coma/Head Injury. This kid started the program 2 years after his injury and had results. Most doctors tell you with brain injuries any recovery you are going to get is going to be in the first 2 years post-accident, but this kid blew that theory away!

Thank you so much for continued prayer....THEY ARE WORKING!!....BELIEVE....the best is yet to come:)