Better Day!

Luke had a much better day today...thank you for your prayers!! For the most part, he was pretty cooperative. They have started taping his open eye open during his therapy sessions. He is tolerating it pretty well with his right eye. However, his left eye does not blink so he hates it. The only thing he really refused today was trying to walk. He was being so stubborn and fighting the therapist so bad she couldn't even lift his leg up. It was towards the end of his session so she didn't want to fight too much. Mike said he had him up and walking (with tons of help of course,) around the room tonight so at least he got that in. Otherwise, in speech today he was blowing bubbles, practicing making animal sounds, making sounds when playing with cars, chewing gun, drinking from a straw. In OT, they are really working on his left hand, and the therapist is noticing a difference since he started working with Luke this Monday. He also works on Luke's balance, and also said he is noticing a difference with that. We have too. He does this new thing when he is sitting in his wheelchair where he sits up really tall with his head straight and chest out. I call it is Superman pose. In PT, today they were working on standing, going from sitting to standing, reaching over his body down to pick up objects and then throwing them to me. I am just glad he did so much better than he had the last few days. Next week they are going to try a reward system where he earns a token for each therapy session he is actively participating in. He can then use the tokens to buy small toys. In the pictures he is walking on the parallel bars, putting a puzzle together, doing aqua therapy, and standing playing a tambourine. They had their meeting today and want to keep Luke for another two to three weeks. Please pray he makes amazing progress these next few weeks. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (Hebrews 13:5) Thanks so much for your continued prayers. Believe! Have a great July 4th weekend. A special thanks to everyone that has ever served in the military for serving so we can all have the freedom we celebrate this weekend. God Bless you all!