What a wonderful week it has been! Rick and I have been in awe of Ricki this week. She is an amazing young women with such determination and strength. For the first time in months Ricki felt well enough to attend school for the full day every school day last week. To many, this is an easy every day occurrence but for Ricki it is a little miracle! One day she came home so excited saying "it is so nice to feel normal" she has had minimal pain and more energy than she has had in a long time. There have been no complaints of her stomach hurting, nauseousness, or pains in her arms. It appears that this new nerve pain medicine is working for Ricki. We have our fingers crossed that it keeps working...Her only complaints for the week have been having a headache twice, the tumor on her leg has become very tender, and she lost the feeling on the right side of her lower lip. She has also had a rash that has come and gone but it hasn't seemed to bother her much. Overall, Ricki has had more energy and has found joy in the simple things of life this past week.
Ricki's eyes always light up when she has the opportunity to work on pageant things. We have had such a rough couple of months I was not going to let her do the outstanding teen pageant this year but, it brings such a light to her eyes we couldn't turn her down and decided to let her participate again this year. Saturday she was in seventh heaven because her grandmother bought her some fun shoes with "heels" for the pageant. She is growing up into a beautiful young women! She had practice for the pageant and they let me go in and record her practice interview. It was exciting to see the improvement she has made in the past year. Being a part of these pageants has helped her in regaining her communication skills and increase her confidence that she can do hard things. She has been practicing her talent..this year she is going to do a tiger to the song "eye of the tiger". So here we come sparkles, make-up and all the bling!
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