Miracle in the making!
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:06 pm
As some of you may remember, I adopted Sasha on December 12, 2009 with no rear mobility.
Over the past couple years I've noted that there has always been some "action" with the hind legs and last summer, Sasha even stood on all fours for a few seconds at a time.
He has always "crawled on his knees" as an alternative to dragging and he manages to get up and down stairs without help.
Well, just now as I was going upstairs, Sasha started crying from down stairs, "Mama, take me with you", so rather than wait for him to claw his way up the stairs, I lifted his hind legs (wheelbarrow style) and let him climb with his front two legs, when lo and behold, he actually pulled his hind legs out of my hands and used his REAR LEGS to climb the last four or five steps!!! When he came into my room, he was walking on all fours, albeit severely knuckled-under on the rear legs!!!
I can not tell you what this means to me!
He has been more affectionate, more frisky, more vocal and more playful the last few weeks (even after two long car trips to PA back and forth).
I really believe that Sasha will walk again and can hardly believe what I just saw myself, but after two and a half years, with nothing beyond massaging and exercising his hind legs (the Nivalin hasn't even arrived yet), this was the most promising sign I've seen yet!
This is the first place I ran!!!
Over the past couple years I've noted that there has always been some "action" with the hind legs and last summer, Sasha even stood on all fours for a few seconds at a time.
He has always "crawled on his knees" as an alternative to dragging and he manages to get up and down stairs without help.
Well, just now as I was going upstairs, Sasha started crying from down stairs, "Mama, take me with you", so rather than wait for him to claw his way up the stairs, I lifted his hind legs (wheelbarrow style) and let him climb with his front two legs, when lo and behold, he actually pulled his hind legs out of my hands and used his REAR LEGS to climb the last four or five steps!!! When he came into my room, he was walking on all fours, albeit severely knuckled-under on the rear legs!!!
I can not tell you what this means to me!
He has been more affectionate, more frisky, more vocal and more playful the last few weeks (even after two long car trips to PA back and forth).
I really believe that Sasha will walk again and can hardly believe what I just saw myself, but after two and a half years, with nothing beyond massaging and exercising his hind legs (the Nivalin hasn't even arrived yet), this was the most promising sign I've seen yet!
This is the first place I ran!!!