Meet Avery

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Avery was
born 11 weeks premature and was diagnosed with two Grade 2 brain bleeds.
Initially the doctors told Jared and Mindy what that could mean for their brand
new daughter, Avery, but she was not officially diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy
until shortly after she turned 1 on December 9, 2015. Just recently on a
routine pelvic X-ray, the doctors found that her hips are not forming
correctly, which is not uncommon for kids with spastic Cerebral Palsy, and
could mean other diagnoses for Avery.
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Avery has
been doing physical therapy and occupational therapy since she came home from
the Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She walks with a walker and if
she is walking longer distances, uses a wheelchair. Avery loves hippotherapy
and all things horses. She also loves swimming with Adaptive Aquatics!
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Jared
&amp; Mindy are grateful for the meals that Children’s Miracle Network funds
provided, as well as the state-of-the-art giraffe bed that Avery was in while
in the Boekelheide NICU.
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