Confidently Walking

Walking to the mirror and hugging herself

Walking to Melissa and Sylwia

We ended an incredible week of therapy with another "mind" breakthrough from Josie. She is trying to walk without anyone around her. We started on Thursday by having her walk about eight feet between Przemek and I. When she did it the first time she was kind of nervous which made her bend her knees and wobble a bit. We did it 2 more times and the other 2 were with ease and confidence. So today she actually told Przemek to stay were he was she was going to walk to me on her own. Przemek said that he can now confidently say she is independently walking with her canes. We all are so excited. I happiest that she is the one who wants to do this and it's not me coaxing her along. She is having so much fun with therapy and with her walking. We will continue to work on speed and perfect her balance so she can really get around the house, classroom, etc independently. The only glitch now is the missing skull. She absolutely can't fall so she can't really ever walk totally by herself until we place a skull in. It's always something. Przemek will begin the next stage towards independent steps without canes. This could be a 6 month to year process. We are happy to start it. As we gratefully end this great week, we thank you for checking in on us. Jenny and Josie



You can hear her in this one telling Przemek to let her go on her own. Sorry about my chatting in the background I was on a conference call.