Re: Re: back from the endo and IEP prep (kinda long)~danielle

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danielle,

we meet brefly at the convention this past year you have agreat group.thanks

for sharing my joy.i am thinking we really need to get to that ent it may be

effecting more then i know as i read more of the post back to me. with jacob on

some much med now i am not sure as to what route we will go for the add it is so

hard sometimes. thank you for your saggestions with my daughter i know i will

find the right thing to make it seem ok to be in the middle and just under a ill

child

cara mom to jacob

le wrote:

Cara,

Great news on the growth spurt. It's amazing how exciting that can

be with our kids. My 8 yr old son is within inches of being taller

then me and we hardly notice, but Coby grew an inch and we have a

party...hehehe

Coby has had 2 sets of tubes so far for ear infections. His hearing

has been good each time it was tested, but until the tubes we fought

infections all the time. The tubes have been a God send and all 4

of my children have had them and we have been thrilled in every case.

As for your IEP, I'm not much help. With Coby only being 2, his are

pretty straight forward. My older daughter has ADD and is medicated

and making great strides. She is also very small for her age but

not diagnosed with anything other then inheriting my genes. The

medication has done wonders for her grades and her self esteem.

Things make more sense to her now because she has the ability to

listen long enough to hear all of the instructions from her teacher

or other adults.

My situation with my children is a little different because of the

age's but I thought I would share my two cents on sibling issues.

Any time I take Coby to a doc appt we have to drive almost 2 hrs

each way so it is a full day that Carlee has to be with someone else

and our big kids have to go home from school with someone. That

makes for a lot of days without mommy and daddy for the other 3

kids. To make up for those days my husband and I try to pick other

days that we can take just one child at a time for a day for

something special. It's easy for me and my 10 yr old daughter, I

simply take her shopping with me or to a movie, things she loves to

do. My 8 yr old son and my hubby have found a hobby they can do

together and they spend evenings or weekend days together doing

that. Then even Carlee has days when Coby stays with grandma so

that Carlee can have time alone with mommy or daddy. This way they

are all getting their alone time. It has worked well with us. Even

if it's not anything special just one on one time that they feel is

their time without having to focus on anyone else makes them very

happy.

Sorry to ramble. Hope something helps. Again, congrats on your

good day and good luck with your little one.

le, mom to:

Shye 10, Brock 8, and Coby (rss) & Carlee 2 yr old twin terrors!

> hi all,

> it was a great day at the doctors. in the doc's own word jacob

had a huge growth spert. i am so pleased. but of corse their is bad

with the good he got a bad ear infection and now the doctor wants us

to take his to an ENT doc and an adiologest(sp?) . so once again we

are looking for the new doc's wicth is hard to do on our insurance.

do any of your kids have problems with their ears most time it is

congestion but as you see sometimes it does end up in an infection.i

am sorry i can't state his stats my doc was suppost to give me a

copy of them but forgot but we have to go back in about a week for

blood test so i will try to get them then. but i did glance at his

chart. it look like he jumped two lines and he is now on the chart

for weight and hieght yaaaaaaa. he uped his GH from 2.6 to 2.8

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> now onto the IEP it was very confusing. one thing for sure iis

that he will be getting serves

> is speach and they may want to do a OT eveal as well. the school

is pretty sure that he is also ADD but it does state inthe paper

work that he seams to have mild auditory processing problems also

particular problems with visual-motor processing and organization.

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> i hope to see an inprovment with some twicking to his schooling. i

asked what to do about the ADD how i could help should i take his

anywhere they said they want to see what was going with the new

changes befor sending him out to other doc's ext, how have other

parents deal with this issue of both ADD and growth issues any

suggestions.

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> today had a real strain on my 4 year old she told me this evening

that she is not as important as jacob i felt so bad i thinn this is

the first time she has said anything like this how do you make them

feel better.i tried tell her she was speacial becausre she was my

only girl and how smart she was ext, but she still felt left out

somehow it real pains me to feel that she feel that she is being

left out i mean it is not as if jacob things are going to go away i

guess you just have to find a happy meadem

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> sorry so long,

> cara mom to jacob 8 GHT peractin zertec preacid and the new one

today flonasie

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