June 21, 2013 - Day 76
Bella’s PT said again today that this was her best day of therapy yet! Bella walked on the parallel bars forward the length of the bars twice and side-stepped the length of the bars and back! She also did 10 strong stands. Standing up from a seated position is extremely difficult for her. Pay attention to all the muscles you use the next time you stand and you’ll understand what she’s facing.
In OT, she did the best bridges (otherwise known as pelvic tilts) that she has done since she got sick! Core strength is vital to Bella’s recovery and the ability to do these bridges will help with dressing, walking…everything.
Yesterday Bella got in the pool at therapy. She walked well then too and had a blast. Two awesome days of therapy!
I read recently about the extreme pain that accompanies GBS – pain that is often not mentioned because of the obvious attention to the paralysis. Bella began to feel some of that pain in her feet tonight. She said she didn’t know what tingling was before. This felt like needles sticking all over her feet. We tried to explain to her that the pain is good because it means that she’s getting the feeling back. We’d been told that warm foot soaks help with the pain so we tried that tonight. It helped a bit I think.
We’re feeling good about the way things are going - slow but moving in the right direction.
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