February 7, 2006
February 7, 2006 | Updates
Ok, quick update. Nothing bad. Just wanted to let everyone see one of those beautiful smiles we’ve been seeing from Samuel. (See the photo gallery for some new photos.) But I have to explain the “contraption” he’s in. Insurance bought us a tumbleform chair for Samuel. But, of course, he hates it because he hates to sit up. And if you try to strap him in, he freaks out. (I told one of his therapists that and they tried it anyway. I bet they won’t do that again! :)) Anyway, I figured out that if you don’t strap him in and you hitch his left ankle underneath his right knee, he’ll stay in the chair for a little while. But everytime he looks left, his head flops over and he almost falls out because, well, he isn’t strapped in (stinker)! So my first thought was ACE BANDAGE! I’ll just wrap it around his head to keep him upright. Well, that was great until his head flopped anyway and then the ace bandage was just covering his eyes. So then I got more creative - baseball cap! So I put the cap on his head to keep the ace bandage from slipping down off his forehead and TA DA! It works! So that is what he’s sitting in and what’s strapped around his head.Now, when I put him his chair tonight and Ben and I started talking to him, he started to smile. So I sent Ben off for the camera. When Ben got back, Samuel smiled over and over and over. My camera wasn’t fast enough to get them all, but there were about 10 in a row. It’s like he knew he was the star and he’d better smile for the camera. Anyway, just some good news we wanted to share with you all.
Samuel has also slept better the past 2 nights - yea! Most days are hard in one way or another, and I don’t know if that shows thru in our posts. But we just wanted to share some good news with you. Hope it brightens your day, too.
Love,
The Jewkes
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