Haley’s Giggle

Hi everyone! It’s Haley. Mommy says it’s dumb to start a blog by apologizing for not writing a blog entry in a long time. My sister Anna says it’s not nice to start a blog with the “d” word in it. So I’ll start with my favorite outfit, especially my sparkly purple shoes.  cute, yes? all is forgiven, yes? Good! cuz I’ve been wrapped up in quite a few things. literally.

This is me with Jaye at physical therapy. I play with her three days a week, and once a week, she wraps my legs in kinesio tape. sometmes she starts at my lower back and wraps it across my thigh all the way to my knees. Sometimes it’s from my toes to my thighs. It’s a special way to wrap with the tape, and lucky for me Jaye knows what she’s doing. She tells my Mommy that it helps to realign my muscles that still want to go the wrong way. I keep it on because I love Jaye, and she tells me to keep it on and athletes wear it so i know it’s cool. Mommy makes sure I keep it on because I walk much better when it’s on, I can twirl around almost really fast now, and I can almost walk up the stairs without holding on.  I also can type my own name on a word document, deftly commandeer my Mommy’s Nintendo DS, and forward my Mommy’s cellphone to foreign destinations, all of which i credit the kinesio tape.

Next week, if you can believe, is the three year anniversary of my bone marrow transplant. Many people remember it– and they say it was a tough time. soon, when i can’t just write but i can read this blog, i’ll read about how tough it was. luckily, i’m too young to remember or read. My parents say it’s a day they hopegoes by uneventfully for the rest of my life. And this year it will … except for Uncle Pretty who will shave his head for it, Anna and me who will get to hug some puppies in animal shelters because of it, and everyone around me who will help me do some happy purply things in celebration of it.