Another Week of Impressive Results

Donovan continues to improve and impress with his quite determination. Ok, sometimes not so quite. Today, after his last therapy session, the therapist wanted Donovan to use the walker, and walk from the therapy room to his room. About 40 feet or so. When she went to put on the support strap around his waist to aid him and keep him in check, he loudly and stubbornly said "No, do it myself"!

The poor therapist didn't know what to do (her first time with our guy) other than let him go. I came out of Donovan's hospital room when he had about 10 feet left and he proudly exclaimed "look at me dad, all by myself"! and cruised right by me into the room asking to watch a Dora Video. Like I said, impressive determination and stubborn to the core, when he chooses to be.

Yesterday, he wanted to play pac-man, so his therapist said he had to walk, un-assisted, in order to earn his time on pac-man. He stubbled a couple of times then took seven steps without anyone touching him. Then, he got that Winston Churchill look to him and on his second try, went 15 steps, and exclaimed,"Daddy, all by myself"!