Matthew's Rehabilitation Week 27

October 17, 2008

Well another week has gone by and Matthew continues to improve each day. His accomplishments this week were: Sitting on the edge of the mat supporting himself, with back and neck straight for 12 seconds while turning his head to the right. He sat supporting himself a few times for several seconds at a time. He also reached behind his back (while pushing the bolster away from him) across the midline of his back. This was totally new and very exciting. Gale explained that him moving more and more across midline meant that he now knows that he has two sides of his body. Before he would only stay to the side he was using. He has also started responding much faster and sometimes immediately on commands such as push harder etc...

Today, I was talking to a flight nurse, who had actually seen some info on Matthew's case from OU. She was telling her mother, who is a patient here, that Matthew was a miracle because he was alive. I was then in therapy talking to Katy and we were discussing the fact that he is a miracle just by doing things that the CAT scan results show that he should not be able to do. She told me that according to some of the records she has seen that Matthew's prognosis from the OU doctors was that he had a 10% chance of regaining some brain function. In other words, he is one BIG MIRACLE already and is still regaining more brain function everyday.

~RESTORATION IN WHAT SEEMS NOW TO BE A WIND OF DESTRUCTION~

!PRAISE THE LORD!


Thank you Lord for the miracle you have performed and continue to perform in Matthew's life.