Guest guest Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 DAY 6 Wow another amazing day today! Mel woke up and once again was able to finish off my morning songs with some more words! For the second day in a row now that shows me she has been listening to me all these years when I sang to her each and every morning without a response. Again Mel is 25 years old and this is the first time in her life she has ever showed me that she's heard me all those years. I always believed in my heart that she did, but so many others gave up on her outside our family and to hear her complete my song word by word -it's just priceless. A lot more humming this morning, even more than before since she started on her second day on nutriiveda. It's still so hard to believe that just a week ago was a different person, a 25 year old that didn't hum, didn't make much of any noise; and didn't seem to be happy most of the time. And before all she wanted to do was watch TV. Now she wants to do things. now she just seems so happy almost all day long; I guess humming is her way of expressing her feelings- and the smiling, it melts my heart to see my daughter smile so much. On the other hand based on how little she smiled before I would think that her face would be sore by now with all the smiling the last 6 days but not yet! We let Mel pick out what yogurt flavor she wants to mix her Nutriiveda with and she is really enjoying the Nutriiveda with her yogurt. She now needs no assistance at all with eating all of her breakfast and her lunch with her spoon- a huge breakthrough. She makes sure she gets all of the yogurt out of the container before leaving the table. Since we were rained out yesterday, today was the day to try and have the walk at Mulberry Park. This walk in the past has always been such a negative experience for Mel and she never wanted to go. She wanted to go even yesterday -Mel is a new person. Today she was all smiles and walked the 2.2 miles in under an hour. Look at the photo of her -I can't believe how happy she is. And I can't believe how quickly she walked either! She shaved off about 20 minutes from her old time and that time was set over a year ago. Mel really looked at this walk today with a different attitude. She found more water puddles and made sure we got wet again. So she had the same motor planning ability two days in a row with water puddles. Does not sound like a lot to someone that doesn't know , but to our family it meant a lot for to be able to motor plan an activity that she probably wanted to motor plan most of her life after seeing her sisters do it time after time. Mel's eating dinner habits have changed drastically. She is now eating her food at a much slower pace but really enjoying her food and the taste. She continues to try and talk more and interact with the family and was very happy to inform us of how tired she was after her walk. She also asked me (very clearly) for her pants in a full sentence- which made 'me' speechless. I again just have to tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Robin, that is great! Jeanne > > DAY 6 > > Wow another amazing day today! Mel woke up and once again was able to finish off my morning songs with some more words! For the second day in a row now that shows me she has been listening to me all these years when I sang to her each and every morning without a response. Again Mel is 25 years old and this is the first time in her life she has ever showed me that she's heard me all those years. I always believed in my heart that she did, but so many others gave up on her outside our family and to hear her complete my song word by word -it's just priceless. > > A lot more humming this morning, even more than before since she started on her second day on nutriiveda. It's still so hard to believe that just a week ago was a different person, a 25 year old that didn't hum, didn't make much of any noise; and didn't seem to be happy most of the time. And before all she wanted to do was watch TV. Now she wants to do things. now she just seems so happy almost all day long; I guess humming is her way of expressing her feelings- and the smiling, it melts my heart to see my daughter smile so much. On the other hand based on how little she smiled before I would think that her face would be sore by now > > with all the smiling the last 6 days but not yet! > > We let Mel pick out what yogurt flavor she wants to mix her Nutriiveda with and she is really enjoying the Nutriiveda with her yogurt. She now needs no assistance at all with eating all of her breakfast and her lunch with her spoon- a huge breakthrough. She makes sure she gets all of the yogurt out of the container before leaving the table. > > Since we were rained out yesterday, today was the day to try and have the walk > at Mulberry Park. This walk in the past has always been such a negative experience for Mel and she never wanted to go. She wanted to go even yesterday -Mel is a new person. Today she was all smiles and walked the 2.2 miles in under an hour. Look at the photo of her -I can't believe how happy she is. And I can't believe how quickly she walked either! She shaved off about 20 minutes from her old time and that time was set over a year ago. Mel really looked at this walk today with a different attitude. She found more water puddles and made sure we got wet again. So she had the same motor planning ability two days in a row with water puddles. Does not sound like a lot to someone that doesn't know , but to our family it meant a lot for to be able to motor plan an activity that she probably wanted to motor plan most of her life after seeing her sisters do it time after time. > > Mel's eating dinner habits have changed drastically. She is now eating her food at a much slower pace but really enjoying her food and the taste. She continues to try and talk more and interact with the family and was very happy to inform us of how tired she was after her walk. She also asked me (very clearly) for her pants in a full sentence- which made 'me' speechless. > > I again just have to tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Wow!! What an awesome story. May God continue bless you and your family. I look forward to hearing more updates. > > DAY 6 > > Wow another amazing day today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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