Discharged from PT today!

ShanaNChris · June 2009

Today Lily was re-assessed by her PT and was discharged, she is exactly where she needs to be for her actual age. After all the worrying and tears about CP, she just needed a little therapy to get her on the right track!

When I asked the therapist about more exercises I should be doing, there was none, so I said, "you mean, I can just play with her? Without watching her legs and holding her right one so she can cross on right and setting up multiple obstacle courses in our house?"

She said "yes, you can just play with your daughter" - I wonder if I even know how to do that???

Also, I ran into a mom today in the Janie & Jack makeshift fitting room (they are having a huge sale right now), and Lily was walking around (small room and she can take about 6 steps now by herself), the mother asked how old she was, I told her 13 months tomorrow and was just about to go into how she is a little developmentally behind bc she was a preemie and yada, yada, yada...but before I could open my mouth, she said "yeah, my daughter is 13 months old too and isn't walking yet"

I didn't know what to say and am sure I looked shocked, I managed to utter the word "oh".

Not bc her daughter wasn't walking, but bc I just had felt a feeling I had not once felt since being Lily's mom - like we were "normal" (and I think you all know what I mean by "normal", not that we aren't, but you know what I mean, we are a little "different" and I feel like there always has to be a backstory about everything).

I guess our backstory is ours to keep now and doesn't have to always be shared with every stranger who wonders why she is so small or isn't doing something yet.