The girls partied up a STORM for their birthday - and they did both wear their wigs (blue and pink) for the disco - looked SO fab - but sob, the photographer didn't get any pics of them before they'd sweated too much and taken them off. (He also managed to not get any pics in focus. Blah!) Tara was such a star - actually it was so cute coz one of her pressies, coincidentally, was a chain that says 'Superstar' (and we've been calling her leg Stumpie Star or Stumpie Superstar) so it seemed fitting - and she wore that all weekend.
Anyway - her and Jadie had the
best fun. It was so divine to see Jadie being celebrated too! Saturday they were spoilt rotten by their cousins and the Patons...and then we went to the disco where they received over 50 pressies! Yikes! Thank goodness one of their friends stayed over to help them open the gifts! Tara raced around all night - you couldn't keep up with her - no wheelchair - just on one leg, and occasionally on her crutches. (Thank you sooooo much to all her gorgeous school friends who carried those crutches around!) She did everything the other kids did - including jumping wildly on a Jumping Jack Castle and dancing on stage (see photographer's blurred pic above). When I was telling one of the nurses about it today, I got such a lump in my throat with pride at how she just went for it - 100% enjoyment, totally energised and SO happy. Not one whinge about anything being too difficult.
And the next day was more of the same - the girls and their friends were climbing up this steep sand dune and then sliding down on the body board. We made Tara go head first so she wouldn't damage her stump...but later that afternoon, at a friend's birthday party, she slid down this mega super-sized slide about 100 times - FLYING down it, feet first, with her stump in the air, laughing out loud. SO scary to watch...like with the dancing and jumping, it's easier to just not look! Otherwise you panic too much - and we'd hate for Tara to be limited by our fears! And we realised that sliding so fast is probably even more fun for Tara than other kids coz she's been confined to the wheelchair for over a month - so it's just so liberating and exhilirating to just let go and move!
Great news is her scab has finally fallen off! Yay!!! So there's a bit of a
donga there now. Will have to wait for that to heal. And we'll be doing the special shaping bandaging in the meantime. Cousin Phil has successfully tracked down stretcher socks for kids in Aus...but now we've been told she's been doing the bandaging so well that her leg's almost perfectly shaped. And if everything continues as well as it now is, she could be fitted for her interim leg ("the ugly one", they warned us again today) in 2 weeks' time! It would only be ready 2 weeks after that - and then the learning to walk starts...so maybe, hopefully, we could be seeing Tara walking in 6 weeks' time. She says she feels like she's starting her life all over again...in a good way (coz she loved her old life too!).
The girls partied up a STORM for their birthday - and they did both wear their wigs (blue and pink) for the disco - looked SO fab - but sob, the photographer didn't get any pics of them before they'd sweated too much and taken them off. (He also managed to not get any pics in focus. Blah!) Tara was such a star - actually it was so cute coz one of her pressies, coincidentally, was a chain that says 'Superstar' (and we've been calling her leg Stumpie Star or Stumpie Superstar) so it seemed fitting - and she wore that all weekend.
Anyway - her and Jadie had the best fun. It was so divine to see Jadie being celebrated too! Saturday they were spoilt rotten by their cousins and the Patons...and then we went to the disco where they received over 50 pressies! Yikes! Thank goodness one of their friends stayed over to help them open the gifts! Tara raced around all night - you couldn't keep up with her - no wheelchair - just on one leg, and occasionally on her crutches. (Thank you sooooo much to all her gorgeous school friends who carried those crutches around!) She did everything the other kids did - including jumping wildly on a Jumping Jack Castle and dancing on stage (see photographer's blurred pic above). When I was telling one of the nurses about it today, I got such a lump in my throat with pride at how she just went for it - 100% enjoyment, totally energised and SO happy. Not one whinge about anything being too difficult.
And the next day was more of the same - the girls and their friends were climbing up this steep sand dune and then sliding down on the body board. We made Tara go head first so she wouldn't damage her stump...but later that afternoon, at a friend's birthday party, she slid down this mega super-sized slide about 100 times - FLYING down it, feet first, with her stump in the air, laughing out loud. SO scary to watch...like with the dancing and jumping, it's easier to just not look! Otherwise you panic too much - and we'd hate for Tara to be limited by our fears! And we realised that sliding so fast is probably even more fun for Tara than other kids coz she's been confined to the wheelchair for over a month - so it's just so liberating and exhilirating to just let go and move!
Great news is her scab has finally fallen off! Yay!!! So there's a bit of a donga there now. Will have to wait for that to heal. And we'll be doing the special shaping bandaging in the meantime. Cousin Phil has successfully tracked down stretcher socks for kids in Aus...but now we've been told she's been doing the bandaging so well that her leg's almost perfectly shaped. And if everything continues as well as it now is, she could be fitted for her interim leg ("the ugly one", they warned us again today) in 2 weeks' time! It would only be ready 2 weeks after that - and then the learning to walk starts...so maybe, hopefully, we could be seeing Tara walking in 6 weeks' time. She says she feels like she's starting her life all over again...in a good way (coz she loved her old life too!).
2 comments:
OOH lala, the babies are 8!! I loved it that you didn't want to leave 7 behind, I had to pretend that even numbers were more fun!!
Miss you even more after that lovely read of the blog.
Tara, you're a maniac, even Matt says so.......fast and brave! He sends you lots of love. We were talking about our fun day on La Garoupe when he drove us round on the pedalo (sp), he felt proud to have such pretty girls on board (and me!! PRETTY OLD!).
I love you Tara, I love you Jadie, I love you Cassie, I love you Jen and I love you Tone!
CAMX
BELATED Happy Birthday Jade & Tara! And what a cool cool cool party you had. Really great to see the 'naked' stump - it's gorgeous.
We have had a little bit of an early summer which was so nice but now the clouds and cold are back
- pooo! I love seeing the blue skies in your photies.
Missing you all and sending huuuuuuuuuge hugs all around,
FG Filipa
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