From: mrsferrara1 <mrsferrara1@...>
Subject: [SEAN_FERRARA] More Great News
To: SEAN_FERRARA@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 6:07 PM

The benefit at Rock n Bowl was a great success and we would like to
thank everyone who worked so hard to organize it, as well as everyone
who came out. Sean's progress over the past 4 weeks has been amazing.
Sean took his first steps using the light gait about 4 or 5 weeks ago.
Since then, he has graduated to the parallel bars (walking without the
light gait between parallel bars) and finally on Friday he graduated to
using a platform walker. Sean is bearing all of his weight in his legs
on his own. The platform walker is a walker with platform arm rests on
it so he can lean on the walker for support. Sean is also able to push
himself from sitting to standing using his legs, with minimal
assistance. His legs and core continue to get stronger, and as they
do, he gets better with walking. He is starting to see some progress
in his arms and with the help of a brace, is almost able to feed
himself. He has also been writing with the help of a brace. We
appreciate all of the kind thoughts and prayers, please keep them
coming.

Love
Karen and Sean