Today was such a great day! Matt did such an amazing job at therapy today! I'm still just in awe of everything. As PT was moving him from the wheelchair to the bench, they had him sitting and he just held his head up all by himself. No help with the sholders or anything. I couldn't believe it, that was the first time I had ever seen that while he was sitting. Another thing he did was we stretched his arms out onto a large ball and had him roll it forward and backward. I say in front holding his hands to the ball and rolled in toward me. Then we asked him to pull it back. He did awesome pulling it back and with a little help he started getting better with pushing too. After doing 10 reps of that we leaned him back against the wedge support, his head was thrown forward, so we asked him to pull his head back towards the wedge so he could see everything. Slowly he pulled his head back up!! It was amazing! I started clapping and yelling praises! I was so excited! Matt was so much more alert and focused, even the PT noticed a change in him. Then we went to the bicycle! I was so excited to see him in action. As soon as we got his feet on the petals Matt was ready to go! And he just went! It was so cool to watch as he just kept going. His mom and I just kept telling I'm to go faster. And he did!
I was so glad that I was able to be there today to see how much progress he is making. I'm so proud of him and all his hard work. Oh, oh, oh!!! I almost forgot, Matt also is starting to move his head from side to side. Especially now with his glasses. So many good things!!!
Keep it up Matt!!! We love you!!
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