Shari
IsItFridayYet?
I've mentioned before that we frequent a local restaurant that was sensitive to difficult child's sensory issues.
Well, when easy child 1 was fixing up his camper, wee difficult child found a complete mouse skeleton in it. It looked like a tiny T-rex. He was amazed by it, and wanted to share it with his friend, the restaraunt owner.
She, in turn, wanted to show it to another little boy that came into her restaurant, so she asked to borrow it and showed it to another little boy.
Some time later, we stopped in and she had a gift from the other little boy. He had found a dehydrated salamander and given it to her to give to wee difficult child.
After several months of this, we met, and the two boys are now friends. And low and behold, the other boy's aunt works for a Special Education advocacy group, and has been helping me get a plan of attack for the IEP meeting coming up!
THEN...
Our county case manager came the other night to go thru difficult child's plan for the year. difficult child was there playing with his cat. Reference was made to dead mice, and the case manager mentioned a friend who was a respiratory therapist, having a cat with a mouse addiction.
Much later in the meeting, I was digging thru the file to get the current copy of wee difficult child's IEP and came across the notes from the allergist/immunologist who has run the tests that show that wee difficult child is desat-ing thru the night. I showed it to her and she asked to take it to her friend, the respiratory therapist with the cat with the dead mouse addiction...
The county case manager called me back today with her friend's take on it, complete with a referal to a pediatric pulmonologist at the University that she made herself.
Who knows. Nothing has come of the IEP meeting, or the dr appointment, but heck, its forward movement!
So, I'm going to ditch all the lucky rabbits feet I have laying around (which amounts to none) and start packing around dead mice!
(just kidding, I'm not...but they seem to be the common thread here....)
Well, when easy child 1 was fixing up his camper, wee difficult child found a complete mouse skeleton in it. It looked like a tiny T-rex. He was amazed by it, and wanted to share it with his friend, the restaraunt owner.
She, in turn, wanted to show it to another little boy that came into her restaurant, so she asked to borrow it and showed it to another little boy.
Some time later, we stopped in and she had a gift from the other little boy. He had found a dehydrated salamander and given it to her to give to wee difficult child.
After several months of this, we met, and the two boys are now friends. And low and behold, the other boy's aunt works for a Special Education advocacy group, and has been helping me get a plan of attack for the IEP meeting coming up!
THEN...
Our county case manager came the other night to go thru difficult child's plan for the year. difficult child was there playing with his cat. Reference was made to dead mice, and the case manager mentioned a friend who was a respiratory therapist, having a cat with a mouse addiction.
Much later in the meeting, I was digging thru the file to get the current copy of wee difficult child's IEP and came across the notes from the allergist/immunologist who has run the tests that show that wee difficult child is desat-ing thru the night. I showed it to her and she asked to take it to her friend, the respiratory therapist with the cat with the dead mouse addiction...
The county case manager called me back today with her friend's take on it, complete with a referal to a pediatric pulmonologist at the University that she made herself.
Who knows. Nothing has come of the IEP meeting, or the dr appointment, but heck, its forward movement!
So, I'm going to ditch all the lucky rabbits feet I have laying around (which amounts to none) and start packing around dead mice!
(just kidding, I'm not...but they seem to be the common thread here....)