Kaci's Mom
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Well it's been 13 weeks since Kaci had her last stem cell treatment. She is doing GREAT!!!!!! The one thing everyone has noticed is that her hands work better! Her right hand especially, which has always been mostly in a "fisted" position, now opens with ease. She has almost learned to tie her shoes!
Everything she does with her physical therapist lately (especially those things she has been working on for years) is now starting to "click" and become so much easier. I definately see bigger changes this time as opposed to last time we did this!!!!!
The other day she was outside playing on her playground (not as supervised as she should have been), I decided I should probably check on her. To my horror (yet it was a pleasant surprise) there she was climbing up the ladder to get up to the top- ALONE!
Also on a different occasion (during speech therapy) out of the blue Kaci decided she wanted to walk over to me (without the assistance of her walker or crutches)- SHE DID!! Then she walked back to where she came from.
Kaci is VERY excited about her progress. She's already talking about our next trip. Very cool!
The one major thing I noticed this time more than I did after her last treatment is how much sleep she needs. Since she got the stem cells she sleeps 11 hours or more a night. Last time her appitite was huge and she slept a lot (but the sleep thing didn't last this long). Also this time her appitite isn't as big. She eats well, but last time she ate twice the amount of food she normally did at each meal. I don't know if it's because she's been eating organiclly (this time) for a year prior to the stem cells. Where she only started eating organiclly right before her 1st treatment. It's such a puzzle.
Kristin
Everything she does with her physical therapist lately (especially those things she has been working on for years) is now starting to "click" and become so much easier. I definately see bigger changes this time as opposed to last time we did this!!!!!
The other day she was outside playing on her playground (not as supervised as she should have been), I decided I should probably check on her. To my horror (yet it was a pleasant surprise) there she was climbing up the ladder to get up to the top- ALONE!
Also on a different occasion (during speech therapy) out of the blue Kaci decided she wanted to walk over to me (without the assistance of her walker or crutches)- SHE DID!! Then she walked back to where she came from.
Kaci is VERY excited about her progress. She's already talking about our next trip. Very cool!
The one major thing I noticed this time more than I did after her last treatment is how much sleep she needs. Since she got the stem cells she sleeps 11 hours or more a night. Last time her appitite was huge and she slept a lot (but the sleep thing didn't last this long). Also this time her appitite isn't as big. She eats well, but last time she ate twice the amount of food she normally did at each meal. I don't know if it's because she's been eating organiclly (this time) for a year prior to the stem cells. Where she only started eating organiclly right before her 1st treatment. It's such a puzzle.
Kristin