Something New!

It seems like it has been awhile since I have had something new to report on our gladiator...but guess what...today I do! It actually happened for the first time on Tuesday, but I wanted to make sure he kept doing it and he has. We took lunch to Mike at the shop after oxygen on Tuesday, so we were eating lunch when Luke pointed to Mike's drink. Now keep in mind this is a large size drink with a normal size straw. Up until now, Luke had drank from a straw that was about 4" long and in a cup that was made to hold about 3 ozs of liquid. So Mike gives Luke the drink and guess what....he drank from the straw. There are many amazing parts to this because first of all he got the pop to come up, then he swallowed the liquid...which is huge!! Here is the most amazing thing to me though, Luke has not been practicing this, he has not been working on it in therapy, something in his brain just clicked and now he can drink from a normal size straw and swallow thin liquids...something he has not done in a really long time! Praise God for this latest step forward and pray it is the start of many new things to come. So, the next time you drink from a straw think of Luke and his new thing, but then also stop and pay attention to everything your brain tells your body to do to drink from that straw and how many muscles are used...I think you will be amazed. Believe!