Tonite I went to April & Dave's to make them dinner.  They weren't home when I got there, so I threw together a cake before she could tell me no.  I love having something in the oven that smells so good for when they walk in! 

When they got home, Dave tells April, "ya know, your mom doesn't get a chance to see what you do at therapy, so show her what you learned".  She looks at him and he says, "you know, ATTITUDE"!  So, she grins, she crosses her arms across her tummy and says "ATTITUDE" and then begins walking across the kitchen with "normal" steps...hiding her limp and her arm looks "normal" crossed as it was.  I broke into tears!  It was an amazing and wonderful improvement to how she has been walking.  She beamed! 

She has been going to "aquatic" physical therapy.  I see a marked improvement.  She seems to enjoy it more than the other PT.  The water offers up much more "resistance" which is building her strength faster.

A friend of mine brought April a book from our "meditation" class...a woman was there, the author, who is a ten year stroke survivor...she was only 31 when she had a stroke...now she is an author and a motivational speaker...I asked if Dave and April would join me to meet this woman next week...she will be there again...at first, April said a definitive NO, but after dinner, she asked me to read some of the book to her and then we answered some questions, and now, I think she is thinking about it...I hope she will.  I told her I was going even if she didn't just so I could thank her for the book, but I thought it would be something so beneficial to April...to meet someone who has gotten through exactly what she is going through now...the thoughts and feelings that can't yet be expressed!  the fears and the determination, etc. 

So, prayers for April and prayers for Andrea, for I fear that Andrea will have much the same path to travel, and prayers for you and you and you and you and oh, yeah, a prayer or two for me, too : )  I love you all.

mimi