Matt has had his 4th visit from his private physical therapist on Sunday and combined with what we have all done and what Spencer is doing, things are really progressing allot faster than I would have imagined.  Spencer really knows how to read Matt and puts things together in a process that really shows in the outcome.  He’s got Matt doing things that I didn’t think he was ready to be doing.  I’m talking purposeful movements on command.  Reaching out, holding himself up laterally and in a full forward lean, it’s just amazing!  He even asked Matt to reach out and hold himself up by grabbing Spencer’s shoulder and Matt was doing this even as Spencer was physically pushing Matt stressing him to see if he could still overcome the stress and support himself.  Matt did that more than once under stress which is really showing how much Matt is pushing himself as he’s being pushed.  Quite a site.  We also had a speech therapist come out Monday and she gave us things to work on with Matt with some goals, once those are working, Meagan will be back out to work on the next group of things.  It’s all a process and Matt continues to move forward.  Lisa had him up in a chair today for about 7 1/2 hours, a new record.  Spencer and I are working on a harness system to get Matt standing for longer periods of time, that way he can build a tolerance for that and work on taking steps so we can get that walking thing going on while all this other stuff in going.  We have 3 days booked with Spencer this week so Matt will be busy.  Feel free to stop by and visit.  We ask that you call the house ahead an hour or so before just in case Matt is in the middle of something or we’re not together.   If you need our home phone number feel free to email me a note at: sdmario@cox.net

Thanks all for your continued support.

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