Sat 3 Jun 2017 First school visit and exercise

Ready for a visit

Yesterday was a day that has been long anticipated. The school social trip. I took Elise from the hospital to home, to get ready for a lunch time start. To say that Elise was nervous was an understatement, she was extremely apprehensive but as with many things hanging over our heads, the bad bits often never materialise.

All went well, Elise was relaxed and all smiles by the end of the school day. She celebrated her first trip back by volunteering to do a maths test - clearly not like her dad. Mrs Gupta, her year supervisor and maths teacher was lovely - organising a small girls gathering in her office (in front of the heater of course) for a quieter visit.

Earlier in the day Elise showed off her leg control skills to the Physio girls. She crawled across the floor of her hospital room under her own steam! Considering there was zero movement in the legs some months ago this represented a huge advance. Note that she is only able to move her legs when there is low gravity (crawling, legs hanging etc) as there is just too little signal getting through to go against the power of our planet.

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