Happy Valentine’s Day!
I won’t dance tonight although I feel ecstatic after therapy. I can walk without a crutch! The therapy room is a great place for commiseration and encouragement. I leave hopeful to walk again soon.
As a strange reminder of how difficult first steps are, I watch old videos of my children when they were so little I was a constant presence in their lives. My youngest daughter keeps falling down and keeps standing up. How tiring a young life is when walking takes so much energy!
This is the picture I take to bed with me tonight. Walking on our two feet is what makes us humans and loosing it is loosing dignity and independence. Young kids understand it when I see my daughter’s young determination and will as she makes one step, falls and then grips the sofa to try again, and again and again.
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