Madison has been working real hard this Summer. She has just completed two weeks of physical therepy. We had stopped taking Madison to P.T. two years ago because we wanted to focus on the treatment from the chiropractic neurologist. The approaches were different and I felt the stimulation she was getting at P.T. was going against our other efforts. Madison has done well without it, but we felt this Summer that she might benefit again from having physical therepy.

We found a place thanks to a recommendation from a good friend and we took her there a few weeks back. Two of the employees already knew Madison from visits to her school last year. They were excited to actually get to work with her, and signed her up for pool time 3 days a week. Madison has been doing great. Yesterday and today, she even tried to stand up on her own strength with help balancing. I will try to post video for you to see.

We still see the chiropracter Monday thru Friday. Madison has not had any of the episodes which might have been seizures. She is getting good eye movements both horizontal and vertical with the optikinetic strip. The doctor found that she responded more to a ruler he had with faces of U.S. presidents on it. But, it was small. I made one with 7 rows of 20 kids from a couple of old band pictures I had, and she seems to try to look at it. The vertical eye movements are cool because according to the doctor, you don't have spontaneous ones...so she is seeing something.

Thanks for cheking in on us. ...John