I sat and thought about how different this story could have been for this family. I hope their Christmas is as special as this story.
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Happy Christmas Eve Eve
(warning : long post)
Monday: OT at Children’s with Niki was great! She is really working on his core and upper body strength. Also on reaction time with his left hand. Emma was able to go with us that day and enjoyed taking in all the exercises and ideas! For those of you who don’t know,
Emma changed her major over the summer to Occupational Therapy after Grayson’s accident.
Tuesday: Physical Therapy with Callie. She is working on overall physical strength and multitasking. She and Niki are very creative coming up with ways to work in these areas. Grayson hasn’t left either therapy session without sweat dripping for his face. We didn’t see that a lot at Shepherd!
We had a sweet friend drop off 3 prayer pillows from Sylvan Springs United Methodist Church with a sweet note of their prayers!!! So touching!
Wednesday: We had our first speech evaluation from 8-9 and then began a session of activities from 9-10. 5 minutes before his speech session was over he tried to yawn and his jaw locked BAD pushing his jaw out under the skin just below his eye. It scared all of us at first until we realized what was going on. Long story short our SWEET dentist Dr. Vann made a phone call to a UAB orthopedic surgeon and off we went. It ended up popping in and out a total of 5 times while we were there but thankfully it hasn’t done it again since!
That night we got Starbucks and drove around looking at Christmas light in Trussville! There were some beautiful houses!
Thursday: We were referred to an Atlas Chiropractor in Sylacauga by our doctor. He was concerned with Grays posture and shoulders being uneven (very evident) that his atlas could be off from the accident. Well long story short after the CT Scan and 3D imaging it is not just off a little, it is off A LOT! He did some light treatments and massaging at this visit but we go back next week to have the Atlas corrected. PLEASE pray with us as he has this done that it will correct a lot of the things it is affecting by not letting adequate blood to properly flow( balance, coordination, speech, vision, etc)
Friday: His favorite place to be… The Husky Baseball Big House. He joined the boys for practice today and stayed after with several to hit. If you could have seen his face when he and David got home. Grinning from ear to ear he said, “ Mom, I hit off the machine today!” I about lost it! Happy tears about lost it!
This is an EXTREMELY hard task for Grayson to do! First he sees double stacked, second his reaction time is extremely slow, and third on top of all of that, the ball is coming at him 85 miles an hour! GULP!!!
God has blessed this kids with the most determination and grit of any person I have ever met. His drive to never stop is AMAZING and exhausting
Friday night we headed to Nana and Papa’s for our annual cookie baking! This year was very special for many reasons! Family time is so important and special!
Santa comes to our house tonight because we will head to Tennessee tomorrow! We have to get the cookies and milk ready and read the Christmas story before bed!
Reflecting as I type…
We are SO THANKFUL every day for our salvation, Gods promises, and for SAVING OUR GRAYSON’S LIFE!
Thank you sweet Jesus!!!!!!