Thursday, March 26, 2009

Days 18 & 19 of therapy. Lots of learning to do, and after this, looks like Bill can earn his CME certificates one and two. He is doing very well with the exercises with Austin. Very impressive. Ramone stated today that the time he has spent with Austin has gone by very fast. He said that Austin is not quite ready to be walking yet, but his brain is receiving the signals, and with every day he will get closer and closer. He sees great improvement in Austin since we first arrived three and a half weeks ago and he says we will see more and more over the next few weeks. This has been such a great experience for us. We have learned so many new things about this wonderful type of therapy called CME and the potential that Austin and his brain truely have. We have experienced such a neat culture and made some great friends while here. The future is going to be so great for the Benschneider Family with Austin's new found abilities. We are tentatively scheduling our next session for Austin in Chile for October 2009, this time however, we will only be staying two weeks instead of four. This is not the end of Austin's journey, just the beginning. I will continue to blog and keep updates going and hopefully get some videos on here (one day!). Thank you so much to everyone for their love, support, prayers and encouragement, It has made our trip a great success. We will be leaving for home on Saturday the 28th at 11 pm at night. We will get to LA on Sunday morning at 0740. Looking forward to being home again and seeing Zach.

3 comments:

mamamia said...

Erika and family:

Have a safe, easy trip home. I am so glad that you had such an amazing trip and cannot wait to see all of your CME exercises when you get home. There is no way to describe the experience of seeing your child do things that they have never done before. And spending time with a man who is so passionate about helping children- I can't wait to go back myself - October sounds good... :)

aunt pam said...

Erika, Bill & Austin: It seems hard to believe that the trip is coming to an end. It sounds so hopeful with the progress made. This will be an experience all of you will never forget. I can't wait for you to be home again as a family unit to begin the next leg of austin's journey. You are an inspiration.

hendywow said...

That is wonderful, have a safe trip home!