Therapy

Emma has been in therapy for 1 year. It is amazing the progress she has made. We went from her not being able to do anything, to her walking in one year, an answer to prayers! There has been times when she has been a pistol, not wanting to do what we wanted her. She is totally a girl who will do things on her own time. We would try anything to get her to roll over, then one day, she just starts rolling. Same thing with crawling and walking. You should see her tear it up now. I would say she is walking 90% of the time and she gets so excited when we cheer her on.

Her therapist brought us some biker shorts that should help strengthen her hips as well. We are so thankful for the progress she has made so far. The therapist says we can go to every other week or once a month now for her sessions because we just really need to work on refining her walking skills, then work on jumping and getting her on her tip toes among a few other things.





God is so good!

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This will be short tonight with another update coming hopefully tomorrow.

First, our baby girl has taken her first steps unassisted. For any parent, it is super exciting, but given everything we have been through with Emma, it makes it that much more special and exciting. She took 3 steps toward my mother-in-law on Friday night as I lay on the couch sick from a kidney infection. I was supposed to work, but had called in because I was so sick to my stomach and had a fever that would range from 100 to 102.5. I am OVERJOYED that I got to see her take those steps.

She took a few more that night, mostly just 1 step here and there. She did a little bit more on Saturday between Dennis and I. Now I don't think it will be long at all.


For me, as I mentioned in my last post, I was seeing a Endocrinologist about my Pheochromocytoma. I had a CT scan done in June and it showed a 6+cm tumor on my right adrenal gland. I have met with the surgeon and the plan is to remove it some time in August after our vacation. They are playing a bit with my medication, prepping me for the surgery so hopefully my blood pressure won't go all crazy during surgery.

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers, we truly treasure them.

God Bless

Jodi