She's Back to herself

Guy Smiley, Carson

Josie putting Carson to sleep.

Happy Birthday Big Boy Luke!!

Hi All, Sorry for the slow posts this week. We are having such a fun, yet busy time gearing up to finish the school year and preparing for Michigan. This Monday was Luke's 3rd Birthday. How much fun that the bear cubs are having their 3rd birthday's within a month of each other. They aren't babies anymore. Happy Birthday Luke!!

This was the last week of therapy with Liz. Josie finished up strong and is more prepared to go back to Sylvia and Przemek. Thank you Liz for all your amazing work you do with Josie. We will miss you and now be sending you videos to review. Can't wait to return with her new tricks to show you.

Josie has been off the Topomax (seizure med) for a week now and I can't begin to tell you how absolutely thrilled I am. She is absolutely back!! You can't even for a moment believe the difference. Now seeing the change breaks my heart that I couldn't stop it any sooner. We just put her through 4 months of torture literally. She was so trapped in her mind and body it is scary. Her short term recall came back almost instantly. Everyone has noticed a difference. Liz even saw it in her walking. For the past few months it was like she didn't even know what right and left was or her pattern that was so ingrained in her head that it was impossible to forget. Joy saw that her personality came back in the way she interacted with her bike vendor that she hadn't seen in 2 years yet was able to recall the events that happened 2 years ago. She learned fractions today with so much ease. Last week when I asked her basic math facts she looked at me with a blank look and answered totally wrong. I am so relived that her brain wasn't permanently damaged from the meds. She doesn't seem to be seizing any more than usual which is great. Now we can keep her learning going since the past few months have been lost.

Hope all is well in your lives. We are thankful for ours. Jenny and Josie