And I can't think of anything that makes me rejoice more right now than watching Job do things, like practice standing!
This was taken on Thursday in physical therapy at the Children's Therapy Unit by Good Sam, where we go every week. Miss Kendra is absolutely amazing and we are so grateful she is Job's therapist. He wouldn't be able to do half of the things he can do now were it not for her work with us!
She is doing most of the work here and providing so much support. It will be a long time before Job can do this on his own! But it's so exciting to me that we're beginning to work on this skill. My attempts here at home have not been very successful, but we'll keep working on it! Job still has some pretty strong aversions to things touching his feet (too many heel pricks?) and struggles to put/allow any pressure on his feet, so it will be slow going but we're used to that.
Also, this takes so much energy for him to do and he did it probably about ten times in therapy, at the END of our session!!! He used to not even make it through half of the session before he would be too exhausted to continue. So this video makes me cry with tears of joy not just because he's "standing," but because of the bigger picture that it represents.
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