Two more appointments down in Portland yesterday. #1: The long awaited swallow study. Joel's been eating for quite some time now, but he needed the swallow study done at some point, and definitely before professional feeding therapy is telling us to give him food regularly by mouth. He did great. After a brief battle with radiology about how toddlers work. :) He immediately refused the toddler chair (duh) and needed to be sitting on my lap. So we did that. And then the speech therapist couldn't put anything in his mouth....he had to do it on his own. We let him have his way on all accounts, and were able to get a good recording of what his swallow looks like. We were passed to go ahead with feeding him like a normal kid. YES!
#2: EYES. Met with Dr. Bock about Joel's eye surgery and a basic eval, which we were expecting. What we weren't expecting was to be told that Joel has astigmatism....so the glasses are back :) It's going to be tough to convince him to keep them on his head. Hopefully we'll keep consistent in it and he'll get used to them. We talked about surgery, and someone will be calling me the beginning of next week to set that up. I'm so ready for this to be over with. Until then, I'll be waiting for little guy to get his glasses! Pics coming soon....
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