United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Annette,
I love this line:
the only thing that would slow her down is her mother not being able to keep up
What a perfect attitude. I highly reccommend the t-ball. Softball is so much fun, at least for me. And its pretty easy to adapt to catching/throwing with the same hand.

I also thought I should mention that I learned to ride on a tar driveway. I had attempted many times before to ride on gravel driveway with no luck, then my family moved and our new house had a tar driveway--way easier!!!
Good luck to your little one!
Amy 19 ROBPI from MN

Hello,

I too was in the online chat with Dr. Wathers. We faced these questions too, but, our motto has always been our son will tell us what he can and can not do. At 3 we enrolled him in Tball. He is LBPI, ruptures c-5, c-6, c7. He is mostly right hand I think because of the injury to the left. We were totally shocked when he naturally batted left. We kept turning him to bat right. Well now he is 7, and can bat right and left. That is a plus in base ball players. When he turned 6, we put him on swim team. He loves swimming. He can not get his full arm out for freestyle but does a pretty good job. I was totally amazed when he decided by himself to enter in backstroke. There is no way his arm can go all around for back. He was doing it with out that arm. So I showed him a different way, to have the arm go up but then out to the side then down. That worked. Last summer, he completed in breast stroke. That is his best stroke. Out of 60 boys, he took 16th place. He has started to practice for this summer team, and is learning butterfly. It is amazing what he can do. Sometimes we do have to help him compensate. The only sport we do not allow is football and wrestling. There are alot of leagues that are designed for fun and not super competitive.