Relaxing

The weather was bad, it was cold and rainy and stormy so we just stayed at home. It is still too cold to bring Celina to school. We had all the therapies at home and it went very well. This week Celina was laughing a lot appropriate. We had lots of fun. Then Candice our physio had her on her feet this week just with leg and foot splints. Celina looked so comfortable. We now have to get a bit of height under the right foot on her foot splints because this leg is a little shorter then the left. Once that is done we can start walking her. That works as follows. She will be standing with her leg and foot splints hold by someone and then the one holding her stands behind her and starts pushing with there feet her feet forward into walking. In this way she will get a bit of feeling what it feels like to walk and the last time about 20 month ago when we did this she lifted her right leg a bit into a step.

Look at me, I am standing. And I am loving it.

 

 

Thank You Lord for progress!

House bound

Celina is out of hospital but has strict orders from the doctor to stay home in this cold and wet weather. Her lungs are not yet back to 100%. So...heater on and covered in blankets some lovely nutritious food and supplements. Building up the immune system and getting strong. And mostly hoping that spring is coming soon and warmer weather. Most probably still staying home the next week and then hopefully starting school again the following week.
The good thing is that Celina is laughing for the last 3 or 4 days constantly and none stop. Wanted to put a little video here but can't get it compressed and otherwise it is too big.
Staying indoors means lots of time for stretching and exercises and a movie or two.
And for ........LAUGHING.

Thank You Lord that our little girl is back home and much much better.

Getting better

Celina is getting better slowly just that we had another choking accident because of not proper pureed food this morning. It's so frustrating. The one shift does Celina's food so perfect and the other one just doesn't get it right.
I am almost back to normal just a slight cough left. And anyway in this weather it was nice just to stay in bed and go nowhere, even in hospital.
Thanks to those who have given so far. The first month is covered with everything that Celina needs.
And there is still some for the following month. And some products are anyway for 3 month that's covered.
And then last night she was in a really good mood laughing a lot being on her tummy. Looking so big already.

Do you see the pic on the left side of the photo, on the wall? The house. Celina did that with her occupational therapist choosing the colours and shapes with her eyes. She does this very well already. It's amazing to watch.

This morning she got this big new friend given by a visitor of another patient who saw her yesterday. Just a loved child by so many. She leaves an impression on so many people not saying a word. Just amazing.

 

Thank You Lord for our wonderful little angel, our beautiful girl!

Funds needed

Hi all

 

Celina is once again in hospital with a lung infection. She is in highcare on oxygen and nebulizers. This is the fourth time in 8 month that she has a lung infection. We really need to do something to sort this challenge out so that her lungs will not end up damaged. And we had an appointment with our new dietician who is really amazing and known worldwide. Helping us in many different ways to sort Celina's health problems out. Like it always is, good stuff cost good money and is needed for many month if not years. And the medical aid is paying for some of the products but not all. The costs will be about R1000 a month for us which we are really not able to cover.

So, very simple and straight forward, we are looking for people who can help with a donation once off or monthly.

If you received this e-mail and do not know Celina's story please go to godneverleft.blogspot.com

The very first page(2012 the oldest one) gives you the main story and thereafter you will find what happend throughout the last years. Have a look and find out more about our little angel. She really deserves a break after all the suffering she went through especially in the last 3 years. These supplements will make a big difference to her immune system, digestive system and generally building up her strength.

 

If you feel led to help us you can make your contribution on Celina's account

 

Celina Aspeling

Absa Bank

Accountnumber 9173922627

Bankcode 632005

Swift code ZAJJ

 

There are one or two things which are very urgent and need to be started immidiately.

 

Think about it, pray about it and don't feel bad if you can't help or don't feel led to help. We trust the Lord that enough will come in to cover all these costs.

All our love and be blessed

Clint, Manuela and Celina

Back again in hospital

Celina started getting temps already last week Tuesday but I just undressed her and the temperature went. And then for the rest of the week up and down. One day better one day worse. And then Tuesday the oxygen went down again which means hospital. And that's where we are since Tuesday. Before I admitted her I still went to our long awaited appointment with our new dietitian. And it was great. We starting her on some new supplement and exchanged some of her old stuff for better ones.
All in all it looks very promising.
The blood tests showed on the one hand that a lot of her mineral results were a bit low. And for the lung part they found para influenza 1, 2 and 3. Again we do not go the simple way and have a virus nooooooooooo, we take three and on top of it mommy placed herself with some flu symptoms right next to Celina.

Two sleepy noses. Lini with triple flu and mommy must have caught some of it.

 

Looks like it might be a weekend in hospital. Well, at least we got around the terrible weather.

 

And I just saw on my overview that yesterday 45 people and today 95 people looked at this blog. Hey all of you thanks for your interest in our daughters story and progress.

 

We might look sick but we are healed by Jesus' stripes(1 Peter 2:24). Thank You Lord. We are on victory ground.

 

                                                        Thank You Lord!

New Journey

We are about to start a new journey with Celina. Because of the whole pooh story from the last weeks our pediatrician has referred us to a different dietitian. Like I am, I googled her and was fascinated by what I found and am now very excited and looking forward to next Tuesday to see with what ideas and solutions she is going to come up with. And how that is with new journeys they cost money. So I am thinking that I will go next week after our appointment and when we have calculated what this new journey is going to cost out on a fund raise spree. So keep on watching this spot to hear what is happening.
At the moment our little angel is not in the best place. She had a temperature just on Tuesday and Wednesday early evening and it wasn't very high, just above 37 C. No reason to stuff her up with meds, just get the clothe and blanket of and let her cool down. An hour or so and the temperature was down again. During the day she was fine just very sleepy. Then today again very sleepy but suddenly every move seemed to be sore. And the first evening with the temperature her cheeks and ears were fire red and hot which is also gone now again. Have no idea what this is. Just hoping she is soon better and just loving her. Stools are regular again, well at least kind of. After having one every day for 4 days or so we again had a gap of 3 days but today before she went to sleep she unloaded and then went straight to sleep. Before we could even pray with her she was gone. Looking like sleeping Beauty. Our gorgeous girl. Getting so big, so tall, so heavy. Aaaaaaaaand starting to grow boobies.
Ok that looks like we slowly going over into teenage hood, puberty. Oh my, always something new.
Now this is different. Seeing your child growing into a woman. Wow I must really get used to this one. Why must everything go so fast?...................wasn't she just born yesterday or so? It is just amazing how fast the time goes.

Well like I said look out for next week. I am sure it is going to get very interesting. And this dietitian we are going to is internationally known and specialized on special needs children. Why did we not hear about her earlier? I mean really we are in this for 9 years now.

9 years, oh yes by the way like every year I forget the date when it happened and then shortly afterwards I remember that another year is gone. On the 27. July Celina's accident was 9 years ago. I can't believe how the time ran away. Well and we are still standing and still going, have never given up and still believe that the day is on its way when she will walk and talk again. Yes call us crazy and yes we are crazy. Crazy for Jesus and His promises. Without Him we would have not gotten through all these years like we have. Yes we had our ups and downs but still strong and full of joy for the Lord. Hey and most importantly still happily married. Try and get that right. Not easy I can tell you that and without the Lord we might not have made it. But with Him all things are possible.

Thank You Lord for walking all these years with us, for being in it with us, being by our side, carrying us at times, reminding us of your goodness and lifting us up and protecting us and providing for us.

 THANK YOU LORD!!!