Summer Dodge Recovery

09/15/2023

Just wanted to share a really cool video real quick!
This is the same exercise that is in the last video we shared of Summer from the end of May. It was taken last month, so a little less than 3 months from the original video.
Summer has progressed to being able to do this exercise while the dots move, and she has gotten so much faster! It truly it is amazing to see her growth and progress in so many different ways so I think this a great example for you all to see what we mean by “baby steps” because those add up to big gains. ❤️

05/25/2023

Sorry Guys! Update Coming Soon! We have a lot to update and unpack! Here is a quick little video of Summer's newest progress!

04/24/2023

New update about Summers recovery Thank you all for keeping Summer on your hearts and minds, and in your prayers. ❤️

Hello everyone. Life has been hectic for all of us since Summer has come home. I wish I could have been updating more, but during this time we have felt called by God to do something more. We have been trying to think of what we can do to help the ...

04/02/2023

Newest Update on Summer's Progress 4.2 23!

Sorry this post has been well overdue! We have just been so busy with all the new changes that I have started this post and have about 1/2 a dozen drafts but have never finished it or something new has happened that I wanted to include. Summer ...

03/07/2023

Update on Summer's Progress! 💕💕

Tomorrow will be 2 weeks over at CNS. Summer has been progressing well in starting to establish a form of communication. She is still not eligible for an AAC device due to her still needing to work on her motor control movements but everyday she ...

02/27/2023

Newest Update!!

It has been a long week but we have finally gotten a schedule and a routine. Summer got home on Monday as Lauren posted. Summer had a rest day and then she started her 1st day of Day Nuero here in DFW on Wednesday.  So far Summer has been ...

02/21/2023

Huge update ❤️ Home at last.

“Leaving TIRR brought up so many memories from the first day Summer got to TIRR. It was only a little over 2 months but felt like a life time ago. We could tear up just thinking about how this place has saved Summers life. She was blessed with the best team of therapist you could imagine; and we have nothing but AMAZING things to say of our experience at TIRR. The people who work there truly are miracle workers. From Libby, to Alex, to Kendall, to Molly, to Christen, to Dr. Woo; To Dr. O’Brien, to some of our favorite nurses and PCAs, (especially you Ms Tonya if your seeing this!) just so many people I can’t even think of them all, on top of all the people my mom connected with their going through a similar situation with their loved ones. TIRR was life changing for all of us, but especially Summer. Her recovery is possible because of TIRR. “

Welllll today was a loooong day. But so worth it! Summer is home in DFW. Her and my mom will be staying at Felicia’s while my mom fixes Summers room up at her house and gets whatever accommodations made needed. It took us awhile to get out of ...

02/17/2023

Update. We are so grateful for the support and prayers we have received from this community it truly has made all this difference for our family battling through this tragedy. ❤️ Now let’s get Summer to the “next level!” 😂☺️

Hello everyone. Great news if you didn’t already see on Facebook, Summer has her trach out! Yay we are so grateful for the work God is doing for Summer it is happening right before our eyes and it’s beautiful. She had her evaluation for the ...

02/16/2023

The trach is out !! God is so good. ❤️
Evaluation for the therapy center in Irving is tomorrow please pray all goes well. Thank you all so much, we will have a caring bridge update tomorrow. 🥰

02/14/2023

Thank you for your prayers they were answered she passed her swallow test. please continue to pray for the congestion to leave her body. ❤️

From the beginning of this journey until now, we have found that one of the most unexpected parts of this journey was how much we would have to advocate for Summer. At one point one of our family members was labeled an aggressive behavior visitor ...

02/12/2023

We need prayers for Summer congestion to stop, and for her swallow test on Monday to go amazing. The only person that can do what we need for Summer is God, so we ask everyone to please tonight and tomorrow pray that he helps her with these two issues so she may get her trach out and get the rehab she so desperately needs. Thank you all in advance.

And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith - Matthew 21 : 21-22

02/08/2023

Update 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Hello everyone. While not too much to update, Summer had continued therapy and continues to make baby steps towards getting stronger. Between her physical strength in her legs and arms to her strength in her swallow and cough, she is getting making ...