Friday, July 11, 2008

Busy week in therapy!



Well it is end of week number three at Barrow's. This week they worked on Luke walking with the walker. He made it 50 feet on Thursday. This is with a lot of help, keep is mind, but with time we know he will get better. He does great with his right foot, but his left foot has a lot of tone he has to work against. They are trying to figure out how to best work around that, although Mike said today the therapist said he did better than yesterday. Today they took three of the kids on a little outing to a place called Stuffington Bear. Luke made a horny toad.

I have to say, everyone at Barrow's has been great, our stay here has been great! It has for sure been a little push Luke needed and also given us lots of ideas of things we can do with him at home. They have given us a discharge date of next Friday if all the paperwork goes thru. Then we will continue going up there for outpatient therapy, although they have not told us how many times per week that will be. We are also going to start Luke back going to the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy here in a few weeks. They recommend you do it 3 months following stem cells to give them sort of a boost. We saw great results with it the first time, so we will give it another go. Thanks for all of your support...have a great weekend, and always believe!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is so awesome! I bet it will be nice to all be home. I am so proud of him! That is a lot of hard work. I can't imagine how exhausting that must be! Prayers are with you guys!

Anonymous said...

Hi Luke,
You are getting so big and handsome. We are proud of you and how hard you are working. Brock and Chubba can't wait for you to throw a baseball to them. God bless you. Keep smiling Gauman's!
Love,
The Purdy's

Unknown said...

Luke-you are AMAZING!! You have done so much in 3 wks. We are so proud of you. Bryan and Maddie say HI.
Love, April

beth said...

Luke looks amazing! We are so happy for him, he must be working very hard! Three cheers for Luke! love, Cameron and Beth