Update on several fronts

It has probably been the longest break between updates. In a way, even that is a blessing: We continue to pray for Timmy's health, strength, and healing, but it is nice to not have to be adding requests every day or week for special prayer. 

Timmy has been enjoying playing in his seat, on his mat and even propped up on his tummy on a pillow. Here he is 'helping' Larissa make bread dough (notice the whisk.)

The latest 'problem' is also a blessing. He has been extra fussy and not sleeping really well for the last week. Aside from helping us sympathize more with a friend working long hours and living on little sleep, we have been unable to point to a cause for the added fussiness (staying up late, waking up early screaming, making lots of noises through the night). Since Jen was bringing two other children to the Dr., she called ahead and go permission for him to be seen - nothing 'wrong,' just baby fussiness. While not enjoyable, we'll take a standard baby problem. 

 

This week also brought the results from Timmy's evaluation by the speech and physical therapist. While mostly just technical language and statistics ('standard deviations from the mean' anyone?) it confirms his eligibility for the early intervention program here. We don't expect to learn much this Thursday, but we will be meeting with a woman who will tell us where we go from here. It sounds like they are stretched thin and may not be able to offer both types of therapy that Timmy qualifies for, but being in the system probably gets us on the waiting list when more staff is available.

Many calls have also gone into looking at Timmy's nutritional needs. Since he doesn't eat on his own, and we have been going 7 months now without adjusting his feeds much at all, we have been wondering what sort of adjustments we should be making to his feeding schedule. Our first appointment was going to be for this Friday, but that was made without the scheduler noticing that Timmy has a G-tube, so a new appointment to be seen in the G-tube clinic was made up in Rochester for June 14th. They will be conducting a swallow study to see if we should start working on introducing foods orally (a step in the early intervention work, too), and then consulting with Drs. about Timmy's nutritional needs and where we head with types and amounts of food from here. It will be a long day, but we are looking forward to it. 

We appreciate your continued prayers. It continues to humble us to be reminded by people that they are praying for Timmy. Sometimes the humbling is amplified when we fail to recognize the person who is telling us they are praying for Timmy (which happened yesterday to Jen with a lady she probably hadn't met before). We are also just tickled to be have front row seats to enjoy seeing God's continued answers to prayer on Timmy's behalf. We hope this blog helps you enjoy the blessings and answers to prayer in a more up front and personal manner.

Thanks!