Friends, 

So much amazing progress has been made over the past week. Miranda has continued to regain more and more mobility as the week has gone on — and today, she even began to do some speech therapy. The Speech Therapist was working w/ Miranda on saying “ah”, “ee”, “eh”, and “oh” (vowel sounds) and also “bah” and “mah” (B & M consonant sounds). Miranda even worked to say “I love you” for Joel multiple times today and to tell a few of us “hi.”

Last Tuesday is when we received the encouraging news that Miranda was raising her eyebrows and opening/closing her eyes on command. That was just 7 days ago, but since then she has also begun to wiggle her toes, regain some head/neck movement along with some expressions, lifting her arms about 8 inches in the bed, and now working on speech therapy. 

Nurses passed along that they are confident that the next week will see huge advances in speech and mobility based on the progress over the last few days. 

This all comes as an answer to prayer, and I would invite you to continue to pray! Anyone who knows Miranda knows that she is focused and that she works hard — one thing that has been increasingly apparent to me throughout this process is just how much work she is having to do every step of the way. Let’s pray for continued endurance, motivation, and healing for Miranda. 

Finally, I just want to say thank you to everyone for all of the support they’ve been offering to the Rockeys. Whether it be praying for them, visiting Miranda/Joel, shuttling Nolan/Olivia to and from multiple things — thank you. It has been truly beautiful to see a community rally around them the way that you continue to.