HBOT

HBOT stands for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

We are excited to be able to use this therapy for Rachel. She will be going 3 days a week to have 2 treatments done each of those three days. If you 'google'. HBOT, you find neat information on how is has helped many people with several different types of problems. Here in the US, it is most commonly used for divers and burn victims. In other countries, they use it for stroke rehab and get great results. The closest place we found to do this is 2 1/2 hours away - northern Kansas City area. Anyway, today is Rachel's second day using this therapy and we are looking forward to seeing results. After her session on Monday, her breathing capacity increased and her speech became even more understandable. The experts say that it takes up to 20 treatments to see super significant changes, so give us a couple weeks and we will all be curious to the results.

Rachel's time home has been good. She gets to shower as often as she wants, choose when she wants to do therapy, and have great food to eat. Madonna's food was decent, but there is nothing that replaces food from home and smelling it cook. Rachel had her first Physical Therapy session with a PT in town, yesterday. It went well. He is really impressed with Rachel's progress in the couple months and has been following the story even before he knew he would be her Physical Therapist here at home. Rachel was proud of her bodies ability to do whatever the PT asked her to do. Her right arm was able to perform well and even was able to give some resistance with it. Yeah! She'll have 'official' PT twice a week. But Rachel is very motivated and does alot on her own at home.

I am thinking that soon Rachel will be able to update her own blog :-) and share with you all her thoughts, prayer requests and achievements.

Let's pray for quick results with this HBOT!

~RuthAnne