Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Lupita's First Steps!!!!

Lupita came to live at Bill and Tammy's Childrens Home over a year ago. Her mother brought her to the orphanage because Lupita was born with severe club feet and at the age of 1 1/2 could not walk or stand. As a single mom of 3 children, Teresa felt she could not care for Lupita the way she needed to be cared for... she worked most of the day and had no one to help watch her three young children. Teresa was told Lupita would never walk. After only a few months at the childrens home Bill and Tammy were able to contact a specialist in Mexico City who agreed to look at Lupita's feet and he felt certain that with surgery and therapy she would be able to live a normal life walking and running with her peers. Last August she turned two years old and recieved surgery on both of her feet... the surgery was a huge success and after 9 months of wearing full leg casts this past week the doctors removed her bandages revealing two beautiful perfect almost 3 year old feet. Lupita was relunctant at first, but in the past two days she has grown accustomed to a new life standing up and just yesterday, she began taking her FIRST STEPS!!! God is still in the miracle working buisness... Lupita's miracle can be viewed below... push the play button and watch her movie!

1 comment:

Lauren said...

Absolutely no words can describe how amazing this truly is...I know her life has been so blessed since coming to live at the orphanage. Beautiful!