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Elizabeth Cassler

20 images Created 8 Apr 2011

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  • Mike Cassler holds the hand of his daughter, Elizabeth while in prayer over her bed at Blank Children's Hospital.   Elizabeth is recovering from a severe brain injury she sustained in an auto accident.  Once an elite soccer player, she has emerged from a drug-induced coma and is in the process of re-learning all of her motor skills.
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  • "Grant her your strength, dear Lord," prays family friend Lori Anderson, left, with Barb and Mike Cassler over Elizabeth's bed at Blank Children's Hospital.  Stuffed animals, balloons and streamers adorn her room, a space in which her parents only allow positive words and comforting imagery.
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  • Elizabeth moves through a rigorous schedule of therapy sessions in effort to regain her motor control and ability to communicate.
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  • Elizabeth uses a two-button console to answer yes or no questions during a physical therapy session at Blank Children's Hospital, while her mother, Barb, looks on at left.  She answers yes after being asked if she wanted the sucker at bottom right.
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  • Barb Cassler looks watches intently while Elizabeth struggles to regain her ability to sit up and hold her head steady.  Barb rarely leaves Elizabeth's side.
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  • Elizabeth's muscles have tightened.  She has lost range of motion in many joints.  A therapist stretches her neck muscles.
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  • "I love you," Barb Whispers while kissing Elizabeth's cheek after a physical therapy session.
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  • Elizabeth wears smiley-faced socks.  Her parents, Barb and Mike, have surrounded Elizabeth with positivity since she suffered a severe brain injury.
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  • Barb tends to Elizabeth in her hospital room.
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  • Mike caresses Elizabeth's head at the end of a long day of therapy at Blank Children's Hospital.
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  • Elizabeth plants a kiss on the cheek of her father, Mike, in her final days at Blank Children's Hospital before being discharged to a brain injury rehabilitation center.
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  • Elizabeth works on her balance with physical therapist Shannon Wieland at On With Life, a brain injury rehabilitation center in Ankeny.  She has made swift strides in recovering from her severe brain injury.
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  • Elizabeth works on her running stride while physical therapist Shannon Wieland supports her from behind during a therapy session outside On With Life, a brain injury rehabilitation center in Ankeny.  In about eight months Elizabeth has gone a coma to saying, "I want to run again."
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  • Elizabeth, right, of Altoona walks up an embankment while physical therapist Shannon Wieland spots her from behind.
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  • Barb, left, and her daughter, Elizabeth, reflect a strictly positive attitude upon eachother.  That attitude has helped Elizabeth make swift strides in recovering from a severe brain injury.  In about eight months, Elizabeth, who prior to her accident was an elite club soccer player, has gone from being in a coma to saying, "I want to run again."
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  • Elizabeth is applauded while entering her sendoff party on a tricycle  Friday at On With Life, a brain injury rehabilitation center.
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  • Nurse Amanda Bigley, left, and Elizabeth shed tears while saying goodbye to each other during a farewell party for Elizabeth at On With Life, a brain injury rehabilitation center.
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  • Elizabeth Cassler, 17, of Altoona is all smiles during her sendoff party at On With Life, a brain injury rehabilitation center in Ankeny.
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  • Elizabeth attains her lofty goal as she breaks a pink finish line tape while running out of On With Life, a brain injury rehabilitation center in Ankeny.  Her father, Mike, holds the line at left.
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  • While her belongings are loaded to go home, Elizabeth is embraced by her mother, Barb, after running out of the brain injury rehabilitation center she spent four months at in preparation of being able to live at home again.
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