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  • 8th October 2015…my doctor baked me muffins!

    Veronika’s doctor made her muffins! The other day Veronika’s rehab doctor asked Veronika if there was anything else she wanted and Veronika signed cake. The doctor said she would make her some!!! How awesome is she, especially after she checked with me what Veronika can’t have in her diet and she said hmmmm, well I’ve…

  • 7th October 2015…World Cerebral Palsy Day

    It’s world cerebral palsy day today……Miss Veronika showed everyone one the ward what’s she’s made of by doing not one but 2 laps of ward 42 north this afternoon…..mighty proud of herself too as she should be.

  • 6th October 2015

    My girl works so hard at everything she does. We were told ‘realistically Veronika would not walk again after her hip reconstruction’. I said to the ortho we were told after Veronika’s 1st MRI when Veronika was a week old that she would never walk, and she did, if anyone can learn to walk twice…

  • 3rd October 2015….Down Syndrome Awareness(acceptance) month

    October is Down Syndrome Awareness month, I personally prefer Down Syndrome Acceptance Month….I think the greater population is ‘aware’ that there are people who have Down Syndrome….but there needs to be more acceptance. I believe acceptance early on in a persons life who has Down syndrome. Way back to those who choose to have the…

  • 29th September 2015….back at Monash Childrens for more rehab

    We went for a walk to the local Coles supermarket in between Veronika’s therapy sessions today….was great to get out of the hospital for a walk and some sunshine…..even if it was to get some groceries! Veronika has been working hard in her therapy sessions, and her occupational therapist at Monash children’s hospital was most…

  • 9th September 2015…nasty chest infection

    Miss Veronika has a nasty chest infection so she missed her athletics carnival for school today…..spent the day at home with Dad and enjoyed watching some of The Wiggles….apparently this is where she had to sit at one stage!

  • 4th September 2015….writing my name

    Veronika went to a birthday party for her friend Ellie, and my girl wanted to write her name in the card…..usually Veronika writes her name as ‘V’ but we have been working on her writing ‘Vee’ for her name and she did such a great job….especially as I was once told by a therapist she…

  • 19th August 2015 Vee

    Veronika has been writing a ‘V’ for her name for a couple of years….we are now working on her recognising and writing ‘Vee’ for her name, because let’s face it we couldn’t of picked a more suitable name for our girl, it needed to be a strong name, but it’s also a difficult name to…

  • 17th August 2015…return to school

    This afternoon I dropped Veronika to school for the first time after missing 16 weeks of school, she hasn’t been since before easter….it’s been a tough few months following her hip reconstruction. Things didn’t go to plan, I was anticipating Veronika returning to school weeks ago, but we all know my girl writes her own…