So a lot of changes of happened in this past week. Okay…nothing huge but big for our lives.
We decided to call Jake’s fertility doctor in Dallas to ask about switching his medication. Not that it wasn’t helping but because of certain complications we wanted to know if there was an alternative to what he was prescribed. There is but it isn’t as effective, but it has done some wonders. Time will tell.
Secondly, and this is the biggest change is we decided to contact early childhood intervention for an evaluation for Gavin. As our family and friends know who has spent time with him he doesn’t speak many words. He says about 20 and will say a couple of two word sentences but most of it is not easy for us to understand. We decided at the time to wait and see if it was just something he would grow out of.
Over the past year and a half we have noticed his behavior and motor skills are different than a normal toddler his age. There is a long list of symptoms I won’t get into now, but they are there and can’ t be ignored any longer. I think the breaking point was his eating. He’s 2 ½ and we still have to cut up his food into smaller pieces otherwise he will take a huge bite and not chew properly and then will choke. It’s happened on many occasions and once a very close call with cantaloupe.
I guess we probably seem over protective to people that aren’t in our house watching him go through this. I don’t want to ever see my child start to turn a different color and not be able to breath again. One time was enough and if that means I look like a helicopter parent by being cautious over what he eats, then so be it.
He is very picky with his food. He loves most fruit, but hates all vegetables and doesn’t care for most meat. Textures bother him and when we try to introduce new foods he gags and screams. We have tried smoothies with veggies and he refuses to drink them. I found some organic pureed pouches that he seems to like, and at this point besides his vitamins, that’s the only way we can get him to eat them.
Luckily for us, Jake’s aunt is a speech therapist and after discussing his symptoms she encouraged us to seek out some help.
So with all that we are setting up an appointment with ECI to see where he’s at and what they can do to help.
If you are reading this and around him please be patient with us. He does not accept changes easily and if he seems like he’s ‘acting out’ please know that a lot of it could be much more than that. I believe it’s much more than that.
The last thing is I’m participating in my first 5K this weekend and hopefully not the last. I set up goals for myself years ago of things I wanted to accomplish. This is one of them - plus a 10K and half marathon. I do not usually put myself out there but I’m hoping that will change. I’ll explain more of the biggest reason why I decided to do this after the event on Saturday.
Like I said, nothing big but it is in our little world.
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