Another Busy Week

We have another busy week of appointments - Opthamologist tomorrow, Diagnostic BAER (hearing test) on Thursday and his OT evaluation on Friday. I am grateful to my Mom and Dad who are taking Mitchell for the next few nights. This gives me a much needed break from the constant craziness that comes with a 2 year old, and also gives me a chance to focus on Dominic at all of his appointments. Most importantly this week is his BAER. He needs to be sedated, so he'll have to fast, again. But this will give us an exact diagnosis regarding his hearing. We'll know if and how much impairment he has. I'm not looking forward to it, but I'm anxious to get it over with. His OT evaluation on Friday will determine how many days/hours per week he'll get occupational therapy through Spectrum, in addition to his Early On therapy. His PT evaluation is in a couple weeks, so once that's done, we'll have a set schedule of days/times.

On a good note, Dominic is doing GREAT! He is such a happy little chub and is getting stronger every day. He is working on rolling over and better head control. He is much stronger and is getting much better at using his right hand. He still prefers the left, but the doctor said this is good. What would be bad is if he didn't use either. We just started putting him in the jumparoo last week. I wasn't sure how it would go, as he hadn't been putting weight on his legs up until two days ago. But he LOVES it! I thought it would give him a different perspective and get him off his back, plus it might encourage him to use his legs. It worked :o) Check out the video below.




He is just doing so well and I am just so happy and grateful. To be honest, I wasn't sure I'd see this day. I see a lot of posts and get a lot of emails from Mom's of kid with IS who are 15-16 months old and can't hold their head up and have feeding tubes. I feel incredibly blessed that Dominic is thriving and is such a happy guy. Again, who knows the future, we may have many more obstacles to face, but to see him progress each day gives me so much hope.