Hi everyone, this update has some possitive news. Here we are 17 monthes after Luna was injured. She has gone from no feeling or movement in her legs and feet to today. We have brought her through healing of the fracture of the pelvic bone and nerve damage. We gave her healing herbal medications, detoxed her from effects of the shock, gave her therapy treatments and good organic healthy food, and all the love, patients and support through cuddle time and play time every day. She has made slow but continueing progress. We just took Luna in to the avian vet for her check up and maintanance. Since he has not seen this type of injury in birds before with nerve damage, he has just had to go on common knowledge of this type of injury. So he has been very interested and even surprised at Luna's progress. Sometimes he doesn't charge me for the visit and thanks me for bringing her in. He said that Luna's spineal cord was not severed, becouse she has movement and feeling in her legs. He said Luna has good retraction of her legs and she was kicking her legs and feet while he was holding her. I showed him how Luna can stand up with just a slight amount of support with my finger for balance. He said she is getting the signal from her brain to open her toes, but needs more practice. At the end of our visit, the doctor said he sees that the only thing standing in the way of Luna walking again is that her little legs needs to get stronger and she needs to keep practiceing spreading her toes. She is slowely getting better at that all the time. The vet said, even if it takes anouther year, that he thinks Luna will walk again. 
And this is differant then when Luna was first injured. He was almost certain she may never walk again at that time. She has taught all of us some things. When Luna was injured, the stress made her feathers turn a gray color. Now this spring she has molted and her new feathers are all comming in bright blue again. This means she is not under stress. So this is good news I wanted to share with you.
Darlene
Have I lost my mind? or is this a good idea?
i know how emotionally draining it is not knowing whats going to happen. he was sick for about a month and every day i had to hand feed him softened food, give him a bath, and like you, watch him drag himself along the bottom of the cage. it is THE most heartbreaking and emotionally draining thing to have to watch every day and you, your husband and your daughter are so very brave for not giving up hope one bit.
