Wednesday, March 10, 2010

March Already?!

Naomi turned 4 on March 7!



Well, haven't been on here in a long time!
February was pretty uneventful. Mostly because we were snowed in! It was the snowiest month ever! The first really big wave came February 5 and there is still spots of snow out on the ground now! The kids used all 5 of the snow days that are incorporated into the school schedule. They also had several 2 hour delays. Naomi missed lots of therapy. She goes on Tuesday and Thursdays and that seemed to be the popular day for a new storm systems to blow through. Usually we get all our really bad weather from the north. This year I think every bad storm we got came up from Texas! It was weird! The last one to go through went past us and didn't drop much snow. Then it went out to the coast turned around and came back and dumped snow on us! The weirdest thing ever!
Naomi has a new therapist. The local hospital where she goes for therapy cut benefits on 400 of their employees! Her OT was caught up in that and had to quit pediatric therapy so she could pick up extra hours doing therapy at nursing homes where she'll make more money and be able to afford to pay the COBRA insurance. Her husband was recently laid off, she has a 6 year old, a 6 month old that they adopted in Aug. after fertility treatments and going through 3 different adoption agencies. Now, she's pregnant, due around the babies 1st birthday! So being with out insurance is not an option! I really hope they find a break somewhere!
Naomi turned 4! Time has just flown by! We all went to church and there were tons of kids there. That tickled her, she likes watching them. I just see a lot of kids 1/2 her age twice as developmentally advanced. UGH. But then I look at her and can't even imagine her at a normal development! There is a lot of little quirky things we'd have missed if she was "normal". She's growing like crazy! She's definitely had another growth spurt. I put lighter weight pants on her that used to fit fine. Now they look more like capris!
Since starting on Zonegran or cutting back calories she's evened out on her seizures. She has about 30 a day and most of them are very light. Some just look like she got light headed for a split second and it's passed. Last week I was feeding her 11G of pineapple at her 2nd meal of the day. I noticed her seizures seemed to increase some so I took the pineapple away after a few days and sure enough! They went back to how they had been before! I then realized when she seemed to be going downhill in January she was eating pineapple then too! So, is it Zonegran? calorie reduction? or having no pineapple?! So frustrating!
She's been faithfully wearing her helmet. She doesn't mind wearing it but screams when putting it on or taking it off! Oh well, scream away little girl! It's saved her head more than once already!
Well, maybe I better stop. I may think of something else and squeeze another post out of it!

2 comments:

SuzanSayz said...

It seems to me Jenny that with all of your experimenting with different foods, meds, therapies, and with all of the research and trial and error, well, I bet you have, in reality, done enough practical, hands on, work and study to where you should have a degree in something by now. Lucky Naomi to have such a dedicated mom.

Fawn said...

Wow, look at all those fun balloons to play with!

Whew, this post covered a lot of ground. The thing that amazes me about you is how you never seem to stay discouraged. To be honest, Jenny, I often feel guilty because it's so unfair that Jade has been able to get so far on the diet and it hasn't done exactly the same for Naomi. I wish we could find the magic bullet that would get rid of her seizures once and for all!

Big hugs,

Fawn