Good Evening All!
The time has begun to plan my spring 2011 nuptials. My fiancee has asked me multiple times what I plan to do for my dance with my father. His question always brings a few tears to my eyes.
August 1988, my father sustained a tramatic brain injury as a result of a near fatal auto accident. For the following 10 months, my father laid in a coma in a complete vegetative state fighting for his life. Doctors urgred my grandmother to discontinue the utilization of life support stating that my father would never walk or talk again and would permanently remain in a vegetative state. My grandmother refused, despite the doctors reccomendations. Miraculously, my father regained consciousness and began the necessary therapies.
He underwent nearly 20 years of extensive inpatient/outpaitent therapies. Thanks to wonderful therapists and my family and fathers commitment to his recovery, my father can now talk AND walk with the assistance of a walker/cane and a spotter.
While I am extremely greatful to still have my father, I can't help but wonder what I will be able to orchastrate in regards to my father daughter dance. While my father can stand, he cannot stand unattended and certainly cannot stand for a 3 minute song.
I have thought about the idea of dancing to "Sweet Child of Mine" with my father, thinking that he could just "jive" in his wheel chair out on the dance floor and then following the dance with a more serious one between my grandfather and I. I'm not quite sure! Please Help!