By Lisa Ansay — The past few days have been full of good stuff:o He climbed a set of stairs (without matching feet on each step, he just walked right up! o He practiced getting in and out of the car for future doctor appointments etc., (including next week’s ophthalmologist).o He walked approx 800 feet today, 300 feet of it without a walker at all! **Yesterday when I was walking with him – down the hall – with his walker…he was pushing it along… walking…and he just kept walking… lifted the walker off the floor…kept walking… and handed it to me. “I don’t need this,” he said. But we were being observed at the time by PT to ensure we were qualified and safe to walk along together without rehab staff, so we were all telling him “put the walker down on the floor, Taylor, use the walker.” So he took a few more steps…pushing the walker… (and I could see him smiling) veered into my path handing me the walker as he was walking by. “Taylor!” So today during PT, his walker was ditched for the last 300 or so feet of the 800 he walked with his dad. Okay, more good stuff:o His right eye is definitely waking up, and he blinks with both eyes now. He cannot see out of the right eye (yet) and the muscular action in the eye is quite weak. But he can move it around for the first time since the accident (a little) and the lid blinks along with the left lid. The right eyebrow is quite active, as is the left.o The last IV was pulled today. FOREVERo His sight has been coming back for longer periods of time in his left eye, with more detail. (It sometimes distracts him when he is trying to walk along, sightless, and the pattern on the floor changes color, or suddenly he can see nearby furniture or people, etc.)
