This blog post is a post from Dawn Parsons’ personal blog. Dawn’s daughter, Lucy, had a stroke as an infant leaving her with hemiparesis, a weakness in one side of her body
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The girl on the flying trapeze
Lucy has been attending SANCA (School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts) for one year. We first went there on a field trip while she was doing her constraint therapy camp last summer. She started working with Jo every Saturday for one hour and the progress that we have seen is amazing.
Lucy does everything from tight wire, trampoline, rolling globe to trapeze. This past week she attended a summer camp for a week, 3 hours a day. On the fourth day the kids were told they would get to take a flight on the flying trapeze.
Now, the only trapeze Lucy has been on is 5ft off the ground..this would be the real deal!!
So, they harnessed her up, and she climbed the 30ft+ ladder without a moment of hesitation (I was a little freaked out as is obvious by the video 🙂
Lucy’s biggest concern was that she would not be able to hold on very long, as her weakend left side would cause her grip to slip. When she first started doing trapeze she could only hold her left hand grip for no more than 3 seconds or so…as you can see in this video..she has come SO far in her strength.
This little peanut amazes me everyday with her attitude and determination!
all the kiddos doing a little warm up
there she is …first on the list!
