Week 2...

We had a great weekend celebrating Lynsey and Luke's birthdays! A really great thing is we are able to bring Luke home after his therapy on Saturday and when he wakes up on Sunday. We just have to make sure to have him back by 9pm each night for insurance purposes-it is considered a "therapeutic visit??" So now he is eight and as we keep telling him, eight is great! He had a special visitor come to his room the night of his birthday. Tara, one of the awesome people that helped him on the night he was hurt. Tara and her husband actually both helped Luke that night. She was helping Luke on the helicopter flight to the Copa. Thank you Tara for stopping by our room and for everything you did that night.

Tonight he has discovered the controls on the bed and thinks it is funny to move the bed up and down...not sure how I am going to stop that one. We'll see...

Tomorrow Luke is going to get casts on both of this legs, it is called serial casting. The purpose is to get his feet and legs in the right position for walking and standing. The guy that came in and spoke to me about it said he really thinks Luke will benefit from the casting. Basically, what has happened is they are not in the right position due to his brain sending mixed signals to the muscles in his legs and feet and he has developed some bad patterns. So, they cast his feet and legs in the position they need to be in for a week, take the casts off, then redo for another week, then take off again, fit his feet for new AFO braces (a kind that is more geared towards walking and standing,) then recast for another week. Hopefully at the end of those 3 weeks, his feet will be where they need to be and he will be better able to walk or at least a little more able to try without having to work around the changes that have taken place. He is able and encouraged to still do his therapies every day and put as much weight as possible on his feet while they are in the casts. Other than that...not much else to report. Thanks for everything...believe!