well i originally had this blog for us as a family to share whats going on, and here lately i know its been kinda an outlet to the struggles with Zach, and that wasnt the intended use, but i must admit it helps greatly, even if im just writing it and no one reads it, to get the worries and the fears and the stresses out. it helps. but i do intend on getting the blog back to us as a whole. some posts may be more on one person or one area from time to time, but i hope to eliminate basically copying from our carepage, so if you are looking to hear about zach mainly, please go to www.carepages.com join, sign in, and search for zach's page, his page name is zacharydavis no spaces.
i think i may have mentioned in here prior about Mikey, he was diagnosed at 18 months with SPD (sensory processing disorder) and underwent ocupational and speech therapy until 2 years old when we moved from germany to texas, i attempted to get therapy started up here but didnt know the right channels to go thru and kinda just thought he would grow out of it, yes i dropped the ball, i was younger and not nearly as wise, and i believe it hurt him:( and added stress to our lives. now fast forward to mikey at 3 years old, Harold is back in iraq and i am home with chance and mikey, mikey now refuses to take naps and wont sleep at night...i tried it all...finally broke down and took mikey to dr's they basically told me tuff crap we cant do anything, so i went to see a mental health doc, mikey was still to young to be diagnosed but i was told he probably had ADHD and to give him melitonin for his sleep issues....well he is now 6, still on melatonin, we have also tried clonidid and now remeron to help him sleep, and chance too as they dont sleep on their own much at all (chance started at the same age) mikey is now diagnosed with ADHD and we have him on ritalin 2x day. some days are better than others and some are pure hell. well last week we encountered another issue....mikey had his first spelling test words such as cat and hat and he spelled them all xaaa aaaa xoooxox well i think i wrote how i had zachs therapist look at him and now we think he may have a processing disorder maybe auditory processing disorder? i just feel like he cant catch a break! i dont want him labled as a bad kid or a stupid kid, cause he is certinaly not! tonight we did some "tacticle" learning, we used shaving cream on a plate and mikey wrote his words in the shaving cream, this seemed to help him remember what they were...so we can only hope things like this may help.
theres a new show on TLC (where john and kate plus 8 come on) called the curtians? autism x6...yes they have 6 kids with autism! wowzers. i am looking forward to watching the premier in the next week or so.
we had a nice weekend, on saturday we picked up our family photos and grilled some ribs out, on sunday harold took the boys to church and we had pizza for lunch. harold ended up having to go back to work for a lil bit as some of the guys are leaving early this coming week. he knocked a few things on his hunny do list and we got to relax some. this coming week im planning on making zach a pedi appointment and we have 5 therapy sessions, should be a nice busy week!
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