Kellisa
went another calendar year without surgery.
Hannah Montana came to Jacksonville in January. The concert sold out in minutes before we were able to buy tickets. We even tried to buy accessible tickets without success. I couldn’t pull the trigger to buy three tickets together that were selling for thousands online. It was breaking my heart that I didn’t have tickets for Kellisa.
Kellisa
really started to thrive with her newfound medical stability. She started
taking dance lessons and it was obvious from the start that Kellisa has the
heart of a dancer. Kellisa danced in her first recital, and she garnered the
loudest cheers from the audience during the encore.
2006
started with Kellisa’s 4th surgery in four months. Both hips
were dislocated again, requiring another surgery of cutting bones, inserting
screws, and hardware. It was followed with the same six brutal weeks of
recovery.
After 18
months without a trip or trail, I was eager to get Kellisa back outside. I
wanted to push our limits and see what we could do on trails. I even bought the
largest baby jog stroller I could find so we wouldn’t have to use her
wheelchair anymore.
