This week she had to finish up her immunizations with her doctor. It was a nurse appointment only and they got us in and out in record time. While I appreciate that, they did not leave any time or chance for questions and did not bother showing us the way back to the waiting room. Thankfully she is all set with her regular doctor for now.
We also went to the pediatric opthamologist this week. Claudia's eyes are so dark that they do not dilate well and they had to give her three doses of eye drops to dilate her pupils. We were there for almost 2 hours, mostly waiting for the drops to work. Next tie they will just double dose her fro the beginning. They had a really nice area for the kids to play so it was not bad waiting. The assistants were great and the opthaologist was nice. Claudia did not want anything to do with him and would not respond to her name when he called her. He asked me if she had hearing problems. Um, no, she just does not know you. It took her a while to respond to us calling her name. She did not get a nap in but was surprisingly well behaved. Very talkative and goofy. They think she will need glasses in the near future but for now we are patching her left eye for 2 hours a day to help strengthen her right eye due to her strabismus. Hopefully this will help. We go back in two months. So, for now Claudia gets to wear super cool eye patches.
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| Not so sure about it... And yes, it was off as soon as I turned around... ugh! |
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| I think she KNOWS she is cute! |
Claudia is doing so much better with the eye patch than I expected. Today was day three and she did not really attempt to remove it. I put it on her while she was napping, I felt kind of bad. The worst part is taking it off, she does not like it and will soon be out of eye-brows!
Claudia and I got to check out her soon-to-be preschool this week as well. One of the students moved away and this left an opening for Claudia to attend pre-school this year. This will be a great help to us and to her. She will be in a very small, non-integrated, structured classroom with only 7 other children. There are 5 adults in the room. Claudia has qualified for physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy which will all be given at the school. She will receive two, half hour sessions of each therapy a week. I cannot wait to see how quickly she progresses. She starts in less than 2 weeks and will be riding the bus, this mommy is getting kind of nervous! Claudia is sooooo tiny compared to all of the other children in her classroom.
We had our first of many CPSE meetings today. Unfortunately I was unable to go but Jason and a good friend (who has been through this innumerable times with her family and others) were able to go. We will be getting all of the services we wanted and Claudia qualifies for the summer school program. We feel that we will see tremendous growth in the upcoming months. We are so encouraged by what we have already seen.
We got her evaluation in the mail today and it was HARD for me to read. I did not like reading about how delayed she is compared to "typical" children. I know she is, but to see it written on paper makes it more difficult, especially since it does not take into account how far she has come in the last 3 months. Oh well, now she will get the appropriate services.
We have had a few nice days weather-wise and have been able to take a couple of walks to the park, so I will leave you with a video of one of her favorite activities:
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