Alabama Here We Come!!

We received some good news today. Sydney was on the schedule with the University of Alabama to start a program called Acquire Therapy in September 2007. The program is designed to help gain function in an arm that isn't working properly due to brain injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, etc. It is a very intensive program involving 6 hours of therapy 6 days a week for 4 weeks. They will place a cast on Sydney's left arm to force her to use her right arm and then hopefully regain much of the function that she lost. Since there aren't any other programs of this kind around, we weren't able to get Sydney in until September 2007.

Well, an occupational therapist with the program contacted us today to let us know that they had a cancellation, and a spot will be available for Sydney this November. YEAH!! The only bad part is the program costs $15,000 and that doesn't include accommodations, food and other living expenses. So, we will be in a tizzy trying to raise the money quickly, but we feel it is really a necessity for Sydney's improvement so we are going to find a way to make it work.

We have high hopes for the function Sydney will gain through this program. If all goes well, she should be able to use two hands to open and play with her Christmas presents...Priceless:-)

feel free to visit the program's website at http://www.circ.uab.edu/cit.htm to find out more information