Therapist appt update

Yesterday we had our appointment with the 3 therapists and coordinator for our county. It went OK.

The names of the 4 girls are:

Occupational Therapist = Barb
Physical Therapist = Marcy
Speech Therapist = Krisann
Program Coordinator = Tammy

OT works with the cognitive skills. PT works with the large motor skills. Speech works with sucking and speech. Barb and Marcy work closely primarily because you need large motor skills to develop many cognitive skills. It's kind of like Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. You need for the other to make sense and you never have a clear understanding of each until you understand the other.

They have set goals for Ry Ry that are six months out. So in the middle of February they would like Ry Ry to reach the following goals:

OT = follow an object 180° and track an object/person through a room
PT = Roll from belly to back and back to belly, lay on belly with arms extended while holding her head up, and sit without support.
Speech = respond to her name and babble (ma ma, da da, ba ba).

They all just kind of watched Ry Ry. Krisann feed her some of her bottle which put the girl to sleep. We set a plan that will hopefully work for Ry Ry. Barb and Krisann will come to our house once a month each. While Marcy will come twice a month. They may come together but it will probably be seperate. We could have 3 visits in one week or even one day. It really depends on how their schedules jive with ours.

Barb and Marcy both scored Ry Ry at the 1 month age while Krisann scored Ry Ry at a 3 month age. Ry Ry's actual age is 6 and half months while her adjusted age is just 4 months.

Tammy asked us what our goal for Ry Ry is through this program. We responded that we want Ry Ry to catch up to her actual age. We are very well aware, as we've been told a couple times by different doctors, that Ry Ry will most likely take 5 to 6 years to catch up. We want Ry Ry to be turn 5 in 4 year old kindergarten not be 5 when the year starts. We just want her to be with people her same age throughout school. We were told very early on that this is probably unlikely but that's the goal. So though they are optomist, I am a little disheartened by this news and the ages that scored her at. I am going to try to take it with a gain of salt but I am finding it hard to do. It's hard for me to imagine that when Ry Ry is 1 we may just be starting rice cereal and that she quite possibly just be sitting up without any support. This is entirely different from T. We just want her to be physical and mentally where her peers are. That's it.

By the way, I talked to my sister this afternoon. The benefit went well. They went through astronomical pounds of meat. She said that it was the largest brat sale that Weber's has ever had. That's awesome.

Have a great Friday night. I think I am going to visit my Grandma (while I am childless at the moment so that I can actually visit with her) and then snuggle with my husband and maybe watch a movie and eat pizza or something. Nighty Night