Yay for snow! but then again....now we have to push a wheelchair through it.

Originally posted: December 23, 2015

We started the day with radiation. That went smoothly again. So thankful for that. Then off to PT. That was going very well. Derek was working hard and doing a lot of different things. He has to work on sitting in a chair and standing up again. He has to work on getting down to the floor and back up again. He had to walk up and down the hall stepping over things. He then had to follow his sister, no walker, and try popping bubbles she was blowing. That was going well, but he was getting tired. He was almost back to the room we started in and there was some construction going on and there was something on the floor in front of him. He couldn't go to the right to avoid it as there was something else in the way(very large). The thing on the floor was about 2 feet wide and about 3 feet long and maybe a quarter inch off the ground, maybe less. To top it off it was sticky on the whole top. I'm not sure if his foot caught the edge or if he got to the sticky part, but next thing I knew(I was just following observing his therapy) he was on the floor with his face making contact with the floor. Thankfully he was fine. Nothing more scary to a mom(ok, there have probably been scarier things lately, but this is up there)
than to have your child who just had 3 surgeries on his head to land face first on the hard floor!! Derek took it in stride and was back off again after he was checked for any problems from the fall.

We were home by 12:30 which was wonderful! We even got to go out for some "normal" tonight and play in the snow. Not quite running around with the walker but they both had a lot of fun. Tomorrow is just radiation bright and early. Then nothing until church tomorrow night. That just sounds nice. The picture of Derek standing up from the chair shows how hard he is working to get back to where he once was just a few short weeks ago. He is really working hard and we are so proud of him. Always willing to try harder and do one more thing for them.