Steps to Success

When Daddy took Hannah to Occupational Therapy on Monday, he mentioned that the OT had tried Hannah on the stairs up to the trampoline…and she did it!   She complained and cried and tantrumed the entire time, but she made it up the stairs…TWICE!

I took Hannah to physical therapy today (same place as OT), and at the end of the session, we tried Hannah on the stairs again.  Sure enough, she made it up THREE times!  It is SO much work for her.  You can see her straining her muscles to get her knees up, but she did it.   She even went backwards once (unintentionally, but she was scared to death of going into the trampoline so she was high-tailing it backwards to get away from it).

I am so, so, so proud of her.  This was one of those feats that I never expected Hannah to achieve so soon.  I sure as heck would not have had her attempt it.  But both her physical therapist and occupational therapist really push Hannah believing, as our PT put it today, “Hannah can probably do a lot more than we think.  She just never has been pushed to do it.”

Truer words could not have been spoken.  We realize that we baby Hannah so much because of her weakness and delays that we forgot to try new things that we feel are out of her reach.  It was a great wake-up call.  This is one step closer to get her to pull to a stand on the couch again and start cruising, which is where we left off before she was hospitalized.

Hannah was discharged (finally) from the hospital just a bit over 2 months ago.   Her physical recovery is absolutely amazing.  Her PT was telling me today that what she has seen Hannah accomplish in just one month is 10x more than she would have expected.

I’ve said it before, but Hannah is truly amazing.