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Resego is pictured with her mother, Rebaone Lekgema (left), and paediatric intensivist Dr Palesa Monyake (right), during her admission for intensive therapy at
Netcare Rehabilitation Hospital.

therapist and member of the “Scarring only matures after two Resego’s mother, Rebaone, expressed
multidisciplinary healthcare team years, and so we have a window of her gratitude to all the specialists,
caring for Resego at Netcare opportunity to make the most of nurses and other health practitioners
Rehabilitation Hospital, which also the various therapies, including scar at Netcare Waterfall City and
includes a dietician, physiotherapists, a massage and pressure garments Netcare Rehabilitation Hospitals for
social worker, and a psychologist, says to promote healing and the everything they have done to help
that Resego was initially nervous about reorganisation of fibres in the scars, her daughter through the family’s
engaging with her new therapy team. keeping them flat and smooth,” ordeal.
Erasmus says.
“My first three days with Resego were “We have been supported with
primarily aimed at getting a little smile “Splints are also helpful to prevent kindness and prayers, and our hearts
out of her. It wasn’t easy to draw her stricture of the healing scars at the are full of thanks for Resego’s recovery.
out of her shell, but our dance parties joints, and in Resego’s case, her right She is getting better every day, and our
really helped her to open up to us. arm and knee have been splinted in prayers have been answered,” said the
the pressure garments she sleeps in to family from Delareyville Atamelang in
“We soon discovered she has a very assist in keeping the scarring at these the Northwest.
playful nature; she’s constantly crucial joints as flexible as possible.”
engaged and making good progress “Resego is doing so well. To see how far
so far. She’s been doing physiotherapy Over time, Resego may require she has come and knowing all she has
to build her muscles and help keep surgeries to release the tight scar tissue been through, it is an absolute miracle
the scar tissue supple to maximise her as she grows. However, she continues to see her smile now,” Dr Monyake
range of movement. to progress in leaps and bounds. concludes.

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