One of the intensive therapies joined by
Giriesha when she was five was PediaSuit training in Amirs Gym, Kuala
Lumpur. This was her first intensive therapy. She did for one whole month in
November 2014. Everything happened like a magic & how we got to know &
agreed to the training still vague in my mind . All I could remember was the video from Amir’s Gym which stole my
entire family’s heart & the next thing my hubby said, let’s go for this! https://www.facebook.com/amirs.gym
I took a whole month of unpaid
leave, left to KL and stayed in my Sister In Law's house in KL. Ms. Laddoo was
1 year plus. With heavy heart, I had to leave both my kids to my mom and left
to KL with Giriesha. Ms.Laddoo was unable to sit on her own that time. With one
part of my brain full with worries about Ms.Laddoo’s progress and the other
part of not knowing how well Giriesha would cope with the intensives, preparing
her food with high protein diet and so on, I left with blurred vision.
There, my father in law helped me to
take us to the gym and bring us back home. It usually takes about 30minutes to
45 minutes to reach.
Giriesha did well with the suit. The
first and second week, I noticed Giriesha was coping well and enjoyed her
intensive sessions. Of course with whimper and cry in between when the level of
intensity was getting higher. Her
intensives were from 2-5pm, just nice after a heavy lunch, we would leave to the
gym packed with any snack that I could prepare to give during break time. Usually
after 5pm, she would continue her therapy in the pool with Madam Fezia or other
therapists. Giriesha loves water.
Third week, noticed Giriesha was crying
more and whimpering, but well that was normal for kid to go through some
downtime emotionally and with the level of activities got intensed. I too was
emotionally a bit down that week. But you know what, we coped things up well
and back to ourselves. At night, noticed Giriesha’s head drop seizure was also
present frequently. I applied Frankincense that Madam Fezia gave me( I was all so
new to essential oil world that time).
The level of professionalism, skill and
dedication I found at Amir’s Gym is enormous. The most prominent difference
that we saw in Giriesha that-her trunk and head control were significantly
enhanced . Both her legs which we slightly curved in became straight and
sturdy. Giriesha’s focusing too has
improved . Her seconds of sitting upright on the second week of training made
me jumped with joy!
After one whole month, we went back home
and continued what I could, of course without a suit and more new therapies I started
to read and explore for Giriesha. Some by my own, some were recommended by
friends who are special need parents too.
Thank you to Madam Fezia for
illuminating many new things earlier in our therapy world e.g. placing child in
right posture while resting, feeding, doing therapy, the importance of oral
care, food choices, and many available therapies and most of all the quality of
never give up and keep on trying and the Power and how far that we can go for
our child with special needs as a mom.
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