Therapy begins

It was lovely to sleep with the extra padding last night. Mum had her first PT session this morning with Owen and she feels great. She did stuff she didn't know she could even do. She stood on a balance board throwing and catching balls, walked with weights on her ankles and climbed a huge step 25 times! She received a lovely foot and leg massage too.

Then the Doctors visited again to explain test results. Blood pressure too high, cholesterol too high and optic nerve damage in left eye (mum wants me to write 'nothing too serious' here) but I have now become the smoking/eating police and she's not impressed.

Next was acupuncture where mum lay around for half an hour with needles sticking or her hands, legs and feet. Then the wait.......

3.00pm.....time for her first stem cell injection. Mum says 'let the miracle begin!' She was feeling very emotional at the start after months of planning and hoping, here she was receiving her precious cells. I taped some of the special event but mum was crying too many tears of joy to talk. Mum says she 'feels great, not superwoman yet, but on her way'. She has been resting this evening so she can venture out with me tomorrow. There is no therapy on weekends so we are hoping to do a spot of sight seeing.