Rehab: First steps on land

No photos, because Daddy accidentally left his phone at home last night, but twice today Bobbi took real steps with her new legs. Here's part of the email Matt send me after the first session in the morning:

Bobbi had a pretty good morning so far. She was in her stander during school and recreational therapies and then switched the chair and went directly to PT where they stood at the parallel bars. She was tired and shaking by the end and she said she was not ready to take any steps, but with a lot of help she was able to take 10 steps. It is not what she WANTS, but it is progress. She feels like her feet are stone and are stuck to the floor. But I keep thinking she is just over 2 weeks into a 16 week* recovery...if we can just help her to be patient and to see the progress that she is making, she will get there.

That was the morning, and when Matt got home early afternoon, he reported that she did it again for ten steps in the session she was in when he left. (*the sixteen weeks Matt refers to is NOT hospital recovery - thankfully! - but based on what her surgeon told her before the surgery: it's going to be a long road, but six months past surgery she'll be able to look back and say that it was worth it.)

The girls and I (minus Mira, plus Eben) got to spend a few hours with Bobbi later this afternoon - what a sweet time. We're looking forward to her being home so we can all be under one roof again, but she's pretty delighted with her hospital room. (Particularly when the people from home keep coming to her!)

Bobbi's room is one of two (the other is unoccupied) that instead of being on the main hallway loop of the rehab unit are on a little dead-end off the main loop. It makes the room VERY private, even with the door open, and that little dead end hallway is a great place for little sisters to play with paper airplanes!!