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Casey had her pulmonary appointment on Monday. She did pretty good. She is getting much better about going out in her chair. She still hates the car and doesn’t want to be in her chair at home, but out of the house she seems to finally be relaxing a bit in her chair. She had …

Yesterday I got a call from Casey’s soon-to-be OT with the school district. She had a last minute opening and was able to come by this morning to meet Casey and shadow Casey with her current OT. The new OT seems really nice and has lots of ideas of stuff that she wants to work …

The weather has been beautiful this week. Today it was a little cool breeze and a sunny 84 outside. Since Casey has been adjusting better to her chair we really want to try and get her outside as much as we can this summer. So today was a perfect weather day and she was doing …

This weekend I was brushing Casey’s teeth, no big deal. All of a sudden I noticed an odd piece of something in her mouth. She was actually playing with it. She had her tongue pushing it up against the back of her teeth. I finally managed to get her tongue out of the way and …

The meeting with the school district went well today. We had our face to face a few weeks back where they just came out and met Casey and got things started back at the office. Today they came out and I had to sign a bunch of consent forms for them to gather medical info …

I have been telling myself that I need to post for weeks now. Every time I would go to post I would think of something coming up that I wanted to wait to put in the details. The next thing I knew it has been nearly a month since my last post. Time just keeps …

A few days ago Casey’s vision teacher brought over a switch. A switch is a tool that helps kids (or adults) that have limited motor function take more control of their environment. There are all kinds of switches. Some are buttons, some are toggles, some work by blinking, or breathing. Pretty much anything you can …

Luckily what ever had Casey feeling bad last week was a quick bug. She was out for a little more than a day then she was back to causing trouble. I hate when she is sick. Casey has been doing really good with her hands. She is using them more and more every day. The …

Not a lot to post today. Casey has her 1 year review with ECI on Thursday. It’s hard to imagine but we have already been in Texas that long. We are also working on getting her services ready to go with the school district. At age 3 kids move from ECI programs to school programs. …

Back in November Tim saw a story on the Today Show about a little girl with a brain injury. Her father had created a site and was trying to join other brain injured children and their families. He had been faced with a lot of the same issues we deal with. A lot of doctors …