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Day 8 Dives 21 &22

Dive 21
This morning Will was up at 6:25am.  That is very early for him!  I'm a little worried about the gym today.
The dive goes well.  It's Mr. Kenny and Ms. Sherrie, Mr. John, Mr. Richard and Ms. Maria and Will and myself.  Will was happy and ready to go!  Doc is back on the television.

Day 8 at the gym
As I mentioned Will woke up early!  His energy in the beginning was good.  Check out the warm up exercises.  He's getting the hang of them!



The bolster went better today too.


Now on to the stairs.  Will claims to love the stairs these days.  The only problem is it takes him awhile to do them so it eats up at big chunk of time.  Today I wondered if a timer might help.  I think it did...a bit.


After that it just got ugly.  Will got scared standing up at the big mirror again.  No amount of flower/candle breathing got him through it.  I can't share it with you.  It's just too sad.  I don't know why he was fixed on falling today, but his fear of falling really does get in the way of his success of standing.  He just cried and cried today.  Miss Tiffany did her best to validate his fear and talk him through it...but again, 6:25am enters into my mind.  

So, after the mirror Will moved on to pushing the cart.  Again, ugly.  He fell twice, pulling the shopping cart on top of him both times.  It scared him and hurt too.  Poor buddy.  Can we start this day over?

How about a scooter race?  That should raise his spirits!




Fast forward to the bike.  Will was once again asked if he wanted to ride the bike.  Yes!  So, let's see it!


I love that he decided where he wants to go...and went!  Today Miss Tiffany offered a new location.  Up the elevator to the upstairs!



How cool would be it to ride your bike into the elevator and hitch a ride upstairs!  Will thought it was really cool.  Here's a shot of him heading back downstairs.


Pretty cool huh!



Dive 22
We're back in the spaceship with Mr. Kenny and Ms. Sherrie, Mr. John and today a new diver, Ms. Lydia.  We''ll she's new to us.  I guess she was here right before Will started and then took a vacation.  She's back now.  She sits next to Will and instantly strikes up a conversation with him.  I like her already!



Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 24, 2016 at 2:03 PM

    I sympathize with Will being tired, things are harder to do. I gotta share w/ you my hearing loss. I had normal hearing till I was about 25. Now I've lost over 50% of my hearing. Hearing aids help. But, on days I'm tired or a long day and its late, or days when I didn't get much sleep the night before. I just can't hear. It's all noise to me.
    See for me to hear I take what I do hear, decipher it into sentences, think about what the speaker subject is, read lips & think about what they are saying. So when my brain is tired its all mah, mah whah, whah.
    I could only imagine what your Will is doing to think for each movement, to hear, to translate what the therapist wants and then tell his little body to do it. He sure is a trooper. GOOD JOB WILL!

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  2. Willmakes3March 25, 2016 at 8:54 PM

    Thanks Stacy for sharing. We all take things for granted. It's good to be reminded of this every once in awhile. Thank you for telling your story!

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