Crystal's Progress

Hi Everyone,

This is Crystal's Dad and Mom. We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. This is going to be a good year for Crystal.

Crystal has been home from the hospital seven weeks tomorrow. Crystal went in the hospital one week before her 10th birthday for pneumonia. She was in there for her 10th birthday. Children's Hospital treated Crystal so special on her birthday. The art room and nurses decorated her door and her whole room while we were asleep. They had two clowns visit her and many presents from the hospital staff. The best thing for her was cupcakes from the art room. The nurses washed her hair the night before her birthday and braided her hair . All the nurses came in at midnight and sang Happy Birthday to her.

Crystal has many angels sent from God to help her recover. Four weeks after Crystal came home from the hospital, she had a visitor from the neighborhood, her name is Jeanine. We never met her before. She wanted to know if she could bring coloring books and crayons to Crystal. Unfortunely, Crystal had no interest in doing anything. She only wanted to eat because of the high dosage of steroids. She was at 12 mgs and now is at 2 mgs!

Well that night she started to color and ever since she has colored in coloring books and has been drawing pictures everyday - day and night.

Another angel sent to us is Nesrin her physical therapist. Crystal sees Nesrin Mon thru Fri. For the past three weeks. The first couple of days Crystal wasn't to happy to see Nesrin but she did what Nesrin wanted her to do. Everytime she sees Nesrin Crystal learns something new and surprises us by showing us. The very first day Nesrin had Crystal opening and closing her hand.

I'm sorry I forgot to tell everyone that Crystal came home from the hospital and couldn't move her left side at all and hardly moved her right side except to feed herself.

My goodness, what a blessing Nesrin is for Crystal. Crystal can move her hand from stomach to nose. Tap her fingers, move her head to left and right, up and down. She squeezed my hand with her left hand last night for the first time. While sitting in bed she can lift both legs up. Also she can move her upper body forward to her legs and back again. Two weeks ago, she took a couple steps for Nesrin and Crystal's sister Kelly. Last week she took four steps forward and four steps back to bed. She has assistance with all of her triumps but how amazing all she can do in just three weeks. Crystal looks forward to seeing Nesrin everyday and showing Dad and Mom what she can do. Crystal was our miracle baby born ten and a half weeks early and now she is our miracle child.

Love to all,
Ray and Theresa