The weather has finally turned cooler in hot Texas and it's finally time to start our walk-a-thon fundraiser! As many know Tessa spent a week at Austin Center for Developing Minds this summer. So much was learned and we look forward in the future to hopefully do more intensives there. However, the goal is for her everyday work at home to be the most optimal with great therapy tools. There's a list a mile long of therapy tools that we hope to get for our Tessa girl to use on a daily basis, but our number 1 wish and hope is for her to acquire a laser. Dr. Crawford with ACDM used a lot of laser therapy with Tessa this summer and I believe that it will be a huge key in her brain growth.

Allow me to share some facts about the benefits of laser therapy especially in brain injuries. Laser and light therapy, also known as photobiomodulation and photoneuromodulation, has been extensively studied since the 1960's and has been proven to be a safe and extremely effective modality to increase healing and speed recovery from nearly all aliments. This is true because at the very core of what this therapy does is it delivers more energy to your cells so they can do their job more efficiently; whether it's healing or producing neurotransmitters. Light therapy is fuel to cells in the body. Light brings oxygen which in turn wakes up cells and charges them to start working. In Tessa's case, so many cels in her brain have been destroyed due to her brain injury at birth. Normal pathways to do normal things are dead BUT her brain CAN HEAL and it can find new pathways to learn those life altering things that come so easily for those without a brain injury. We want to equip her life as much success as possible and helping her brain heal and learn new pathways is one of the best ways we can do that!

Tessa and I are determined to walk 50 miles in the next 4 weeks. Tessa doesn't know this 😅 but she is going to walk 1 whole mile in that amount of time using her walker. This will be a HUGE feat for her. She is strong and fierce and I hope and pray that through this fundraiser we can purchase a Neuro Solutions laser and a full body vibrating plate. I will be documenting our walking journey over the following weeks on Instagram and will save all the stories to a highlight if you'd like to follow along we'd love for you to join us! My handle over there is jlronson. If there's any chance at all of going over the fundraiser goal every penny will go toward another week of intensive therapy.

If you'd like to sponsor us on this journey you can pledge so much $ per mile or just by a lump sum which could be measured by Tessa's 1 mile journey. Sponsoring her 1 mile Trek would mean the world to us! Follow along on Instagram to watch how hard she has to work for each small step. I am already proud of her and she hasn't even done it yet! If you can't sponsor financially we'd love and appreciate your prayers! We covet every single one of them!! Thank you so much for love, support and prayers for us over the past 2 years.

The best is yet to come! 💪🏻