God continues to heal and surprise us every day. And no words can describe what a parent feels as they watch their son heal.
Tuesday night, Ben exclaimed, “I think he is trying to say something to me!” Running to his bed side, we listened intently to the movement of the air from from his tongue & lips. He was trying to say something but we couldn’t make out the words.
Wednesday, while in a therapy verbal assessment, Seth whispered his first understandable words in 3 months: “Seth, farm, Yes, No”. These were the answers to the questions being presented. Excitement! to say the least! [Farm came about because the therapist said “Old MacDonald had a ….?” To which Seth said farm. -HC]
Thursday, he took it a step further. In a therapy session, he correctly whispered the number of 4 separate playing cards (2, 8, King, and 7) and whispered the value of a Jack and Ace for the game blackjack (21). Then he went on to play 2 hands of blackjack with the therapist by giving a thumbs up for Hit and a right leg kick for a Stay. (Earlier this week, we discovered he can move his right thumb and his right leg).
Later with another therapist, we asked him yes/no questions and, using a special set of buttons labeled Yes & No, he would respond by pressing the appropriate button with his right big toe. [I think it’s the thousands, if not millions, of triple steps he has done in dance that has helped him gain this control! -HC]
Today (July 4), it is still early and he is asleep. It will be a weekend of healing and rest as most of the therapists have a long weekend due to the holiday.
Many have said that they had nowhere to turn except on their knees in prayer. We, too, join the countless throng of the faithful who have dropped to their knees in prayer, as we too are helpless with no where else to turn. We constantly find ourselves in prayer to God as go forward in this difficult journey.
Cell by cell. Neuron by neuron, piece by piece. God is healing Seth!
2 Kings 20:5b “I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you.”
-David Meyer
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