Wednesday, April 18th

Last night Annie didn't sleep much. Don't know if we didn't shake up her medicine enough or what, but at about 1:30 AM, she yelled from her bedroom. Couple things---one, at 1:30 AM, she's usually asleep. And two, up until about 1:30 AM last night, she hadn't yelled yet. So I rouse from a dead sleep, leap over our bed into the her room in one and a half steps, and look at her. She's not doing anything remarkable, except lying there wondering why I'm hyperventilating. I stuff my heart back into my throat and go back to bed. Couple minutes later she starts making more sounds that are new. By this time, I'm starting to get that she's not in pain, just trying out some new noises she thought up because someone was praying that she could talk again, and this must be the warm-up. This went on pretty much the whole night, until about 5:30 AM, when I woke Bill up and told him he could sit and listen to her for awhile, so I could pretend to sleep for another hour. So I want to know which one of you were praying for Annie to talk last night????

More progress--for PT Debbie, she used her right hand (which if you recall, she hasn't used much at all) to activate the sound on a toy 3 or 4 times. And, this afternoon when I stood her up facing me to practice her standing, she began taking steps around me--initiating walking herself.

We saw her pediatrician yesterday--Annie's gained 4 lbs. in a month. The doctor is going to check with the nutritionist about maybe dropping her caloric intake, but she's always been such a string bean, she probably needs a little extra heft for all the work she's doing in her PT & OT times. (I could use a chiropractor myself, but Advil will have to do for now.)

Tomorrow we go to Children's neuro clinic for a check up.

Jean

PS Pray that she practices her new sounds during the day.

O LORD, you are my God;
I will exalt you and praise your name,
for in perfect faithfulness
you have done marvelous things,
things planned long ago. Isaiah 25:1