Tanners PT on treadmill

This is Tanner walking on the treadmill on April 21st. He has been improving from the first time. In this video he is only having Jan help him with the placement of his feet. At the first he had 3 people working very hard to get both legs bending and working the way they need to. It is like he is having to learn to walk again from the waist down. It is very humbling to see how hard this task is. I hope we never take anything we do for granted. This is a big lesson for me.

This is Jan Black Tanners Physical Therapist. There are other great ones also, but Jan has been awesome with Tanner. She motivates him and understands Tanners determination. He Knows what he wants and is going to accompoish it. But the best is that she can put up with Tanners teasing. His thing know is when new patients come in and ask what happened to him. He explained how he was minding his own business crossing the street in a crosswalk and Jan swerved and hit him. We all love him for that sense of humor. He keeps smiles on all our faces. He keeps my heart light! But what an amazing young man behind his smile.

Tanner gets visit from Life Flight Survivor.

For those of you that keep up with the blog I appologise
for being so behind on the info. I am not sure I should
keep going or how many still keep up with us. There
is alot of stories I need to share and I decided I will
do it one a day until I catch up.

This was on a Wednesday in April when we got a
phone call for Tanner. This is one of is day off from PT
it was around 10.00 in the morning. He hung up
saying that someone was coming over to see him
that was at Preston school and Preston had told
him the story of Tanner's accident.
We he got here he introduced himself to us. He was the
flight nurse in the Life Flight Helicopter that crashed 5
years ago. He was the only survivor and had broken his
back. He was walking! He also shared with us how 2 doctors
had told him he would never walk again. His story is amazing
and I am so glad he took the time to come to visit Tanner.
It is people like this that take the time to share that make
a difference. The trials he has overcome are encouraging to
us all to keep going whatever obstacles we hit!


P.S. I did had some new music to the list, Tanner told me I had
girly music.

Tanners gift from the Team!

When you give, it comes back in 10 fold!(or 20)

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