Emily learned how to maneuver her wheelchair up and down hills today. Since she does it all with one leg, it's a lot more challenging than it sounds. She did great with the uphill - you just turn the chair around and work. Those ski legs come back every now and then. She struggled a little more with downhill. On the downhill you have to control you speed and if you use your foot it tends to get caught under the chair. You have to use your hand on the hand rail to act as a brake. Emily got the handrail brake concept mostly, but she kept forgetting to tuck her fingers around the rail and getting them caught in the spokes of her wheel. We'll just have to keep working on it.

Emily got the cast off of her right late yesterday and the stretch looks good enough that we're going to go back to using splints to maintain the extension of the arm - much easier for showers and swimming. Still no resolution on what to do on the right ankle. They'll take that cast off in the morning and we'll see if a week in a cast has given us any additional range. I talked to her doctor and her PT today - the PT and I agree that the ankle is a real road block right now. I think it's up to the PT to convince the doc.

Finally, Emily did some standing in the parallel bars again today - but today for a minute or two she was able to stand completely on her own with no support from her PT. This is a big accomplishment.