Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Gains!

In a non shock, Its been hard for me to get back into the swing of blogging.  So I'm terribly excited to share what was a fun weekend and a report from Occupational therapy.


Friday night, I had plans with girlfriends to go to a hockey game.  This meant that Dominic got a babysitter to cover until Daddy got home.  Here we are picking up the sitter and her 5 year old, who Dominic has known  and adored since he was born.  They are Buddies. 

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1zVXILzRXiAWge8g74fs9ksWmGiK0ldaA

Saturday was his turn for a hockey game and he and I went and had a mommy son date. It was fun. 

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He particularly enjoys the cheering.
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And he is noticeably taller than me now.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1uYHx2hnDVt0C2uBFHPzueugalhYk64u8

He started swim class this semester in school for PE.  He ADORES it.  Tells us every day that he "swims like a fish" and apparently he is doing well with the routine change.  Due to his genetic mutations tho, he doesn't detox out the chlorine, so footbaths are now happening in our house every day that he swims.   I kid ya'll not, the IonCleanse by AMD has been our hands down best overall intervention ever.  We've now been using it 5 years and there are weeks that he doesn't have one.  Then there are weeks like this (caution, if ya'll do this, please give lots of extra trace minerals.  Detox uses them up).  Theres a link to buy them and like 2 years of history of gains that Dominic got over on that ioncleanse tab.

We have now had 6 more sessions with Rachel at Kishami Academy.  Today when Jonny brought him out of OT, this was what he shared with me:

1.  Dominic is doing almost no echolalia / scripting / stimming walking into and during his session (this remarkable because all of those have been prominent for years)

2.  During Peer Play, Dominic said audibly without being prompted "Aiden, Its your turn".  And later on when Jonny was attempting to redirect him with a clickling sound, he looked at Jonny and said "Jonny, please stop"

3.  And the one that made me go "awwwwwww"....  Five minutes before the session was to end, he told Jonny he was "all done".  When Jonny queried him with how come, Dominic said "because family is nice"

So, our "little things" that I use to monitor progress are actually increasing in frequency (those examples were all in a 50 minute session), and seem to be a little bit bigger....


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