Canes, Take 2

As I was uploading some videos this morning, I contemplated posting this one.  In fact, I was almost feeling discouraged by it.  To the "untrained" eye, this is just another video of Ellie struggling to walk with her canes, I thought.  I didn't want you, my beloved blog readers, to be bored by content that's seemingly similar to the movie I posted 2 weeks ago.  I didn't want you to secretly say, "I don't see ANY difference between this movie and the last one..."

BUT.

Then I watched the video from 2 weeks ago (you can find it here) and realized that Ellie's improvements ARE pretty spectacular and obvious!  Only 14 days ago, Gabby was having to put her foot inbetween Ellie's legs every time she took a laboured step with her cane.  Otherwise, Ellie's legs would criss-cross (or, scissor).  Only 2 weeks ago, our goal for Ellie was to have her walk from the middle of the classroom to the door (maybe 15 feet). 

NOW...

She is walking from the classroom all the way to the snack room (75 feet or so), AND BACK!  Gabby doesn't have to use her feet to keep Ellie's from scissoring.  The only thing that Gabby is doing on this new video is stabilizing the canes.  Ellie is doing all the moving, all the stepping, all the standing. 

Sorry for doubting you, my amazing Jelly B'Ellie!


PS: I know I sound super-excited while taping this video. Of course, every time I see Ellie walk with canes, I'm pumped, but I *was* being overly dramatic (who? me?) here as an incentive to Ellie. She loves nothing more than to impress people, so I was hamming it up a bit :-).