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Our growing girl
Have you ever heard of Wolff’s Law? I hadn’t, not until the day before yesterday. My wife and I were looking at pictures of Namine from over the past year with my aunt up at her house. We noted that Namine has, contrary to doctors’ predictions (sounds familiar, right?), been growing quite a bit. We…
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2013 in review
Kids, this has been one crazy year. I can assure you, never did we think at the start of it that Namine would have endured half the stuff she has, to say nothing of getting a prosthetic and having heart surgery.
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Therapy
Despite Namine’s crazy sleep pattern the night before last, she performed admirably in therapy. However tired she may have been, she worked her little butt off.
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Pain
Namine did not have a good day at therapy yesterday. Some days are better than others – that’s true of anyone – but lately she’s been complaining of more pain than usual. Considering that she’d rather suffer in silence than admit pain, that’s saying something.
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Christmas Eve and Morning
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was fantastic, even though we drove around quite a bit. It comes with the territory, when you have family that lives a good distance apart, but well worth the travel.
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Police Navidad
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Namine’s new walker
Namine tried out her new walker!
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Hers alone
Namine has had a walker since March. Ever since her therapist switched her to a rear-facing walker, her walking has improved by leaps and bounds.
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Namine walking on the treadmill
This is from therapy today.
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Therapy and tachycardia
I’ve seen all the videos Jessica has taken of Namine at physical therapy, of course. But I’ve only rarely attended Namine’s therapy sessions, because they are during the week when I’m at work.
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Namine walking at therapy
Since getting the okay from her cardiologist to resume physical therapy in her walker, Namine has continued to improve. She is up to walking for ten minutes in her walker, at two minute intervals with thirty-second breaks in between.
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Seating clinic
Namine has had a lot of clinic appointments lately, the latest being at the seating clinic. The appointment at the seating clinic, where Namine goes for measurements and fittings for the wheelchair and walker, went well.