Thank you for your Prayers !!

Today Katie drank 2 ounces consecutively from a cup!!!! She hasn't done it again yet, but at least we know it is possible!!!! She can drink!! Katie just needs to get the rhythm of consecutive swallows and stick with it!! Keep praying!!!!
Katie has also started to stand alone!!! She will do a bear crawl position, on hands and feet, then just stand up!!! It is only for a split second, but it is huge progress!!! Her neurologist goal was to be standing independently by 18 months, and there is no doubt she can do it!!! Just pray for continued health, continuing function of the shunt and continued absence of seizures!!!!
Katie has also cut two molars, which helps explain her explosive attitude moments this past week!
I researched to understand more of Katie's vision. The optometrist believes her vision was around 20/60. This means that her vision impairment is on the mild side, but that mild vision impairment means she can only see about 20-30 feet away. The prognosis is unknown because her brain is still has great plasticity (or ability to rewire and reconnect itself). We need to continue to greatly encourage her to use her vision to promote the rewiring process, and to not use her other senses to overcompensate. We have to encourage her to notice the details of life with her eyes as much as possible. Glasses will not help Katie's current vision impairment, since the vision impairment is located in her brain, it is more of a neurological vision impairment. The stroke and the bleed damaged a lot of the brain tissue between the eyes and the location in the brain that processes the images taken in by the eyes. This is also why she has the nystagmus.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP THEM COMING!!!!!!
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AS HE CONTINUES THE MIRACLES IN OUR DEAR KATIE!!!!!!!