Monday, April 2, 2007

(No HBOT) No HBOT on Mondays

We had a day off today, but we saw more improvements today than in the past week. This morning I left home earlier and Javier got the kids ready and drove them to school. On their way out, our roof contractor was arriving to fix our roof. Jonathan saw him and said: "What are you doing climbing up the ladder?" The contractor looked at him and responded: "I'm going to fix your roof". And Jonathan understood perfectly and said: "ah, ok".

He goes to Occupational Therapy (OT) on Mondays. Grandma takes him. When she arrived at the daycare, she could not find Jonathan where he usually is. He is usually either laying down on a big green pillow sucking his thumb or in a corner. Today, he was on the floor playing with a few other kids. The teacher told Grandma that today Jonathan spoke more than ever. He would not stop talking. He also had a good OT day. He was more hyper than normal, but today's report says (among other things): Jonathan has been talking a lot today. His awareness was better than usual.

Later in the evening, when we all got home, Vanessa wanted to go outside to play (we have a small playground in our backyard) and he followed. He had not gone outside to play in months.

Overall, he seems more observational, more curious, and definitely more talkative.

On the negative side, HBOT has increased his stimmings (humming, rocking, moving constantly) and it is disrupting his gut (he again pooped on his pants). It has happened just about ever day since day 2 of HBOT. I knew it was going to cause gut issues, I guess I wasn't really psychologically prepared for pooping on pants.

1 comment:

Bea said...

What a great day!!! Amazing!!Sorry about the poop. Those gut things are no fun.
Bea