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Thank you so much everyone. Everything went pretty well on Monday and I think now with us gettin Skyler into he Genetecist now has helped calm some of my nerves. She thinks the majority of the Blood Tests the Neurologist ordered for Skyler should give us answers soon on what is wrong with him, if not she is only recommending 2 other tests to be done.
The appointment with the Special Ed Department went fairly well and now he needs yet another Hearing Test done beforehe meets again with more teachers and the same spech pathologist who observed him on Monday in our school
district's special Ed department in March for school. Honestly as much as I love having him home all day with me, it will be nice for him to start making friends and playing with other children his age in our area every day while at school.
I Certainly appreciate you all thinking of us and for all of your pixies. Since July this year has just felt so crazy for us here.
Becki - sending continued , hope each day brings more answers and also moves closer to Skyler getting the services he needs. I think he will love school once he starts. Definitely keep us up to date...
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Thank you also much for all of your thoughts and pixies. Erick & I are over our colds, and poor Skyler's has come back. Both of us were looking forward to watching Football and having lunch with Erick & DFil today, but I want Skyler getting better soon, so we stayed home. It has been nice having Erick entirely off of work from both jobs Friday & Today. Poor little Skyler wasn't a happy camper(nor could I blame him) on Friday when we had to take him to have a lot of blood drawn for all of the tests the Neurologist & Genetecist have to do for him, and they had to use 4 veins. I think I telepathically felt Skyler's nerves while they drew his blood. Luckily now his hearing test is scheduled and just have to wait for the school board to call to schedule his eligibility appointment time.
Skyler hasn't been getting much sleep and neither have I with his cold.
Holly, I hope you & Evan have a wonderful Kwanza, and hopefully I will be able to get back on here again to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas. I just hope I can get back to updating my TR soon, since I really miss Disney and more so miss Florida right now.
Sorry all, Skyler is still fighting his cold and luckily after a visit to our Doctor today in our wonderful(sorry being sarcastic) snow she has him on Antibiotics for his cough, since I can't give him anything else for it. With Christmas being 9 Days away, the medicine should hopefully get him much better by then. I was actually happy that given I booked his appointment yesterday they could get us in with the family doctor instead of another one in the practice so I could touch base with her on all of Skyler's specialist Doctor Appointments, especially since she didn't know that we were able to get him into the Genetecist sooner than next year, an unless he gets sick again, he doesn't need to go back to her until around his Birthday, so yay for not needing an additional follow up visit for him. All I can hope for is our roads improve a little bit since I haven't been able to even get my Holiday Shopping finished. At least a plus though if I can't get all of Erick's Christmas Gifts under the tree, he'll get them not much later for his Birthday since it is in the beginning of January. I hope everyone who has snow by them is safe while on the roads. I know our's were pretty bad on the way home from Skyler's Doctor Appointment and picking up Skyler's Medicine. I hope everyone's having a wonderful day and thank you all so much again for the feel better pixies for Skyler.
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