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Post by Kristen on Feb 21, 2006 15:14:13 GMT -5
That's wonderful that she had a great time! As for that group of girls...UGH! For the most part, girls that age are either really nice or stink - glad the nice ones included her and she had a good time! The stinky ones would be like that to anyone who was not them anyway.
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Post by Kristen on Feb 21, 2006 15:11:23 GMT -5
Get an epi pen for everywhere you go. It can be very bad.
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Go Talk
Feb 14, 2006 14:03:38 GMT -5
Post by Kristen on Feb 14, 2006 14:03:38 GMT -5
One of Carter's classmates wers a "watch" that has 5 or 6 pictures on it that talks.
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Post by Kristen on Feb 14, 2006 14:02:24 GMT -5
WOnderful! There's one for every jerk who said that you can't improve cognitive function and your IQ just is what it is.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 18, 2006 16:06:52 GMT -5
Carter could rake and grab a lot earlier than pincer, so he id pretty well on his own at about 10ish months. I know that at his first birthday I remember putting little pieces of cut up noodles and fruit and broccoli and bread on his plate and he polished it off on his own because people who had not seen him since he was born were shocked. I also remember sitting him up in a grocery cart when he was 7ish months old and being devistated that he would not hold and bite off his own cereal bar. Yes, I had a hard time some days with it all! I also remember being in a grocery store again some time later and I was looking at something rather than breaking off his bites of cereal bar fast enough for him so he leaned over and took a bite out of it. I yelled he took a bite! He took a bite! LOOK! My little boy took a bite all by himself! Carter was confused at the big deal and I think someone called a paddy wagon for me, but I remember it was joyous! Same thing when he picked up his own straw cup and drank. He was over 1 and would not hold and drink by himself and I was busy in the kitchen and told him hold on and I look back and he's sitting there holding it drinking away. How long was he hiding THAT one? Now at 3 1/2 he is good with a spoon and fork, but the fork is harder - he doesnt' always "lean into it" and ends up scooping or placing on the tines before balancing it into his mouth :lol! The biggest hurdle we have is his wrist movement - he doesn't naturally want to rotate it, but he does well just the same!
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Post by Kristen on Jan 13, 2006 14:18:05 GMT -5
Jodi, I know where you are coming from. From time to time in my schooling to becoem a nurse this comes up and it is SO HARD for me to bite my tongue. OB was the toughest - the teacher kept going on and on about the grief of parents who's children had a diagnosis and how devistating it is and how they have to make horrific decisions - I almost raised my hand and asked if she wanted me to do a five minute lecture on exactly what it feels like since she could only guess and her type of pity and attitude was not helpful - UGH! I know wha tyou mean about the thoughts that cross your mind. I don't want to get into a debate, either, but seriously, there are WAY bigger drains on the budget that kids like ours that need help! What about all the money that goes to people who sneak in here and are not even citizens and we pay welfare, medicaid, education, etc. That's a heck of a lot more than disabled children will ever use up and my husband (and I in the past and future!) work hard to pay our taxes and into Social Security. I do not feel one iota badly about my child using some of the resources my family busts their butts to contribute to. Whenever I hear the "drain on society" line I roll my eyes. I think that is such a weak argument it couldn't hold a feather.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 13, 2006 14:23:22 GMT -5
I htink you did great and that dad is to be commended, too. He is stopping the problem by holding his children accountable. You would have never known, whcih would have hurt less, but they are on the right trak now on teh subject, which will hurt less cumulatively for all disabled people they encounter in the long run.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 13, 2006 14:33:29 GMT -5
How did no one see that in the past? Geesh! I do know how you feel - the first eye doctor we tok Carter to took one look at him (barely his eyes) and said eye surgery in a month, glasses now and forever. WAAAAHHH!!!! I took him there because I was being overly cautious about an eye that occsioinally turned in and THIS? I was so devistated. In the end I did a ltitle researcha dn founda new opthamologist before I did anything and he confirmed what I thought - his vision at 20/30 is normal for his age and bilaterral strabismus signifies a motor path developing so wait on it because it isn't affecting his vision. One year, starting to walk (I think it had a little to do with it) and no glasses later, his eyes were proclaimed STRAIGHT and his vision NORMAL! Opinions are just that. If you really trust him, go with it, but if you want it looked into a little more, I would do that, too. It really is not that juge of a deal, but no one wants their kids to have anything "wrog" with them, so I do understand how you feel! At that same time with Carter we had to have his hearing test done twice because he quit cooperating in the booth half way through. I *knew* that was the case and he passed no problem on the revisit, but I still sweat and cried plenty at the thoguht that a month ago he was "fine" and now because i was being proactive he was going to have lifelong glasses, eye surgery and hearing aids! That was a lot of crying for a while.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 11, 2006 21:08:06 GMT -5
Yeah, that would make the vacation set! I bet she will do fine if she has been in the past. Honolulu itself is like any other city, but the north shore and over the mountain is great! THAT is how I think of Hawaii! Pearl Harbor is fantastic - I cry every time I go and I swear I won't!
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Post by Kristen on Jan 9, 2006 16:23:45 GMT -5
We went for IL to CA this last year with Carter when he was almost 3 and he did GREAT! Sydney (non-DS) is the one who threw up! We are also going to Hawaii either late next year or early the year after (my brother is stationed there for the next 3+ years) so we may be returning at least once a year for a while. Have you ever taken her on a vacation before? How was she then when she was off her routine? Is there somewhere else you could drive to that you would all enjoy as well? I would never take a family vacation without Carter.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 6, 2006 19:53:48 GMT -5
We have a regular gate between our banisters and it works fine.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 6, 2006 19:50:48 GMT -5
The only problem I see is that no one else knows it whereas school staff know at least some ASL. That and it was mentioned SO MUCH on another board that it turned me off.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 6, 2006 19:48:47 GMT -5
I would never tell my friends for fear they would think it was a weird DS thing. Carter is a poo painter BIG TIME as he is tired, but resists naps - you know, he's 3 1/2 so it's fun...Anyway, yesterday I got wise to the plan (and po'd at it all enough!) that I cut the feet off a sleeper and zipped him into it backwards. The leeg holes looked a little loose around so I put socks and sweat pants on over that. He slept in his nap for 3 hours, no noise, screaming or begging to get up. Today he went in like that and rested for about an hour, which is totally fine with me, he needs the rest time more than a "nap" per say and he was happy and I didn't have to go stand by his door and see if I coudl smell poo to run in and grab him before the painting started.
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Post by Kristen on Jan 5, 2006 14:13:05 GMT -5
No. Nothing remarkable has ever happened to my on Friday the 13th. I can name several other dates on the calendar that weren't so hot, though!
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Post by Kristen on Jan 5, 2006 14:11:42 GMT -5
Oh, just to add what didn't work...treadmill therapy! WHAT A DISASTER! OMG it was soooo bad for him! I think we only went for two months before giving up and moving on to center based therapy at Easter Seals. They would string that poor boy up like a parachuter and off that tread would go. He bent up his knees, straddled the moving tread, EVERYTHING to get out of it. There was no point to it at all so we said forget it. Smart cookie, though. It took him about two weeks to figure out spreading him legs apart let it run between and he would LAUGH...Stinker pie.
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