Blogging from my phone is getting frustrating. That's the reason you haven't heard from me.

Things at our house are going well!!

Zach and Emily were both diagnosed RSV and Croup. It's been a fun few weeks for our family.

They are both at the tail end of the sickness, thank goodness.

I am so ready to be healthy and get our little family back into our normal.

Zach is doing so well. Now that his sickness is almost gone, he has become so mobile again.

He is crawling and scooting! He has climbed the stairs!!

He talks circles around me! It's AWESOME!! I am happy! We will hopefull start school again for him. I am excited to finally get him in the routine again!!

Emily is off track again, her teacher said that she is doing amazing academically. She is in the top 1% of her class. She is reading on an almost 2nd grade level! I am so proud of her. The only thing her teacher is worried about is her social skills. She says she is often "distant." Considering the things that have happened in her life, esp recently, I am not surprised! We are working on that though!

She is doing well. I have put into place some new disapline and structure. It seems to be working well!

Things are finally moving forward. I hope to start school soon too. I am changing my major. I am not quite sure exactly what it will be yet, but I have a pretty good idea!

Therapy Day 3 post surgery.

This morning was a good morning. After finding the right drug to help with his pain, we both got lots of sleep. Our nurses were great! It's not every day you get a good nurse that is a ninja.

She was so quiet that I didn't even know that she was in the room. She said that Zach didn't know either. She is now known as Nurse Ninja! I slept great. It was nice to finally have some rest.

After our breakfast and some TV. Zach and I made signs for his room. These signs will help the nurses and visitors know how they can help Zach. We posted them on the wall and the door. Hopefully they will work.

We got some cool visitors. First off our wonderful Neurologist Dr. Lloyd happened to be helping one of his patients and noticed our name on the door. He was surprised to see us. He thought we were in for more testing for our surgery. As he was saying surgery Zach turned his head and he saw his incision and said Wow you already had the surgery. Yeah... We talked for a few and we made an appt for a follow up for a few months down the road.

We finally got our therapy schedule set. YAY!

 
We will be seeing an OT 5 days a week 2 times a day. She will be helping us regain the use of our right side. Now, we don't know right now if the use will even come back but he is showing positive signs that it is. He started opening and closeing his right hand. The OT was so excited. She mentioned that OT would very possibly keep us in the hospital long than we expect to be.

Next we see...



I got really good news from our new Speech Therapist today! She spent some time with him while i was showering. She said that from their records and from the answers to the questions I gave her, she said that she thinks that he might have GAINED some speech!!! I was shocked. He has been pronouncing words better. It was such good NEWS!!!


He will also do Physical Therapy. We are not sure how much he will be doing because he currently can't sit up.

Aunt Aimee came up tonight to visit. She brought mom pumkin chocolate chip cookies and ate the all...

I forgot to thank Alesha and Jenny for coming up last night. They helped me so much. I needed to laugh after such a stressful situation.

They turned the pressure up on Zach's drain today. The higher the pressure the more work Zach's body has to do to absorb the fluid that is created. It's sort of like having hydrocephalus.

We are currently waiting for dinner. Zach has requested Hamwach (sandwich) again. I will be having... something. Maybe.