Disclaimer: This post will contain no pictures.
Kennedy and I leave this afternoon for 3 weeks in Wisconsin. For those of you in the North, I will do my best to pack some warmer weather in my suitcase.
Kennedy starts her Intensive Therapy on Monday. Poor girl has no idea what she is about to get into. She is used to her 4x week 45 minute therapy sessions. She is about to get 3 hours a day for 3 weeks.
We are super excited about the possibilities with this therapy, but are trying not to get our hopes too high. We have decided that if she comes home doing just one thing that she didn't do before we went then it is a success! Two or three or four would be icing on the cake!!!
Also....we are excited to say that we have a new member of The Wallin Family. Jessica and Chance welcomed a little boy, Calvin Howard, on Thursday! Caden, Makayla, Cole & Connor are very excited about a new baby in the house! I'm excited that we will be there while Jessica is on maternity leave!
I'll try to post updates while we are up there.
Have a great weekend!
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Lots of New Things
This post won't have pictures, but I did post some in the previous post "Blogging on the go"
The last week or so have been pretty crazy around here. First, we have decided to venture into house hunting. Our lease is up at the apartment at the end of August and it is ridiculous how much rent is and you get no tax break for it. Plus the obvious things like upstairs/downstairs neighbors, no backyard & no patio. And even though our apartment is a pretty good size as far as apartments go...a house will just give us so much more room. Half of our stuff is boxed up and/or stored in the garage. It will be like Christmas when we get to open them again!! We found a house that we liked and were going to put an offer on it yesterday, but someone beat us to the punch. I guess it wasn't meant to be. And so the search continues....
The other thing that has kept me busy this past week is setting up therapy for Kennedy. We have been doing 2x a week of physical therapy, 1x a week of occupational therapy and 3x a month of speech therapy (all 45 minute sessions). Last week her PT suggested that we look into an Intensive Therapy Program. I've posted a youtube video of what it looks like.
The Cage they show in the video is just part of the program, but it is 3 hours a day, 5 days a week for 3 weeks. She really felt like Kennedy is a good canidate for this because of several things. 1) She wants to do things. She does things that show us that she wants to move from point A to point B, just can't figure out how to get there. 2) She has made progress consistantly since we started therapy 3) The Intensive Therapy program uses pulleys, weights, etc during their sessions and those are things that currently we physically can't do at the house.
I started researching the program and saw a lot of positive feedback. There are just over 100 places in the US that use this program. Luckily, one is only about 5 minutes from us. What are the odds, right? Well, I called them and they don't take our insurance and $6300 was a lot of money! So, the research continued...Hudson, WI has a location. Awesome, but I thought what are the chances that they take our insurance when the one down the road doesn't? Apparently the odds are 100%. They take our insurance and we would only have to pay a copay for each visit. Granted that can add up too, but it will be less than 1/4 of the cost.
Avanti is 15 miles from Jessica (my sister) so we could stay with them. I was getting excited and the possibility that this may work...not only for the therapy that Kennedy would get, but also because I would get to be around my family for 3 whole weeks!! The last week has been spent going back and forth with them on insurance, prescriptions and scheduling. I talked to the lady today and paid the downpayment. Kennedy is scheduled to start on May 9th! I will book our plane tickets later today and we will be all set. My mom's friends, Jeff and Lori, have graciously agreed to let me use their van while we are up there. We would have made it work somehow, but with their van it will be so much easier on everyone. Thank you so much!!!
Her sessions will be either from 9-12 or 10-1 and the last 30 minutes are so will be spent in the pool doing aquatherpy. I am so so so excited to see what this will do for her!!!! I can't even imagine the nap that this girl is going to take every afternoon! Hopefully I can keep her awake in the car long enough to get back and have lunch before she conks out :)
We will resume our normal therapies down here in June. With the kickstart that we are hoping the Intensive Therapy will give her she should have an awesome summer!!
I'm off to look at more houses online. Wish us luck!
The last week or so have been pretty crazy around here. First, we have decided to venture into house hunting. Our lease is up at the apartment at the end of August and it is ridiculous how much rent is and you get no tax break for it. Plus the obvious things like upstairs/downstairs neighbors, no backyard & no patio. And even though our apartment is a pretty good size as far as apartments go...a house will just give us so much more room. Half of our stuff is boxed up and/or stored in the garage. It will be like Christmas when we get to open them again!! We found a house that we liked and were going to put an offer on it yesterday, but someone beat us to the punch. I guess it wasn't meant to be. And so the search continues....
The other thing that has kept me busy this past week is setting up therapy for Kennedy. We have been doing 2x a week of physical therapy, 1x a week of occupational therapy and 3x a month of speech therapy (all 45 minute sessions). Last week her PT suggested that we look into an Intensive Therapy Program. I've posted a youtube video of what it looks like.
The Cage they show in the video is just part of the program, but it is 3 hours a day, 5 days a week for 3 weeks. She really felt like Kennedy is a good canidate for this because of several things. 1) She wants to do things. She does things that show us that she wants to move from point A to point B, just can't figure out how to get there. 2) She has made progress consistantly since we started therapy 3) The Intensive Therapy program uses pulleys, weights, etc during their sessions and those are things that currently we physically can't do at the house.
I started researching the program and saw a lot of positive feedback. There are just over 100 places in the US that use this program. Luckily, one is only about 5 minutes from us. What are the odds, right? Well, I called them and they don't take our insurance and $6300 was a lot of money! So, the research continued...Hudson, WI has a location. Awesome, but I thought what are the chances that they take our insurance when the one down the road doesn't? Apparently the odds are 100%. They take our insurance and we would only have to pay a copay for each visit. Granted that can add up too, but it will be less than 1/4 of the cost.
Avanti is 15 miles from Jessica (my sister) so we could stay with them. I was getting excited and the possibility that this may work...not only for the therapy that Kennedy would get, but also because I would get to be around my family for 3 whole weeks!! The last week has been spent going back and forth with them on insurance, prescriptions and scheduling. I talked to the lady today and paid the downpayment. Kennedy is scheduled to start on May 9th! I will book our plane tickets later today and we will be all set. My mom's friends, Jeff and Lori, have graciously agreed to let me use their van while we are up there. We would have made it work somehow, but with their van it will be so much easier on everyone. Thank you so much!!!
Her sessions will be either from 9-12 or 10-1 and the last 30 minutes are so will be spent in the pool doing aquatherpy. I am so so so excited to see what this will do for her!!!! I can't even imagine the nap that this girl is going to take every afternoon! Hopefully I can keep her awake in the car long enough to get back and have lunch before she conks out :)
We will resume our normal therapies down here in June. With the kickstart that we are hoping the Intensive Therapy will give her she should have an awesome summer!!
I'm off to look at more houses online. Wish us luck!
Blogging on the go
I've installed an app on my phone that allows me to post from anywhere. Since I take a lot of pictures with my phone I'm hoping that this will get me to blog more often. We'll see how it goes. Here is my first attempt.
I was super excited when she was able to do this during therapy on Tuesday!!
She has also learned how to tear apart her play mat.
I was super excited when she was able to do this during therapy on Tuesday!!
She has also learned how to tear apart her play mat.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
January
Kennedy learned some new tricks and got a cool "toy" in January.
First she actually sat up long enough for me to walk away from her to answer the door. I was so excited! She can't do it all the time, but she is getting better every day.
She got a stander to help her with putting weight on her legs. She is in it 30-60 minutes a day. She usually watches Wheel of Fortune while she is in it. It is working great. We are very lucky that our physcial therapist has a storage unit full of equipment and toys and is letting us use this as long as we need it. It is VERY expensive if we would have had to buy it. Well over $1000+!!
She has also gotten pretty good at holding her sippy cup.
Here she is just chillin'.
And "camping" as Daddy calls it.
In January she also started Speech Therapy. If she didn't have the other issues she is dealing with I wouldn't have even thought about a speech therapist. But since she does and we are getting other services I decided not to chance her getting behind in speech. You can see her wheels turning when she is trying to copy something you are saying. She'll get there. She "talks" a lot to Danny and I, but is pretty quiet when the therapists are here. I have to show them videos of what she can 'say'....little stinker!
January was also busy with swim meets. It is nice to be home so when they are in the middle of the day we are still able to go cheer them on. District was at the end of January and his boys and girls both won. Yea Daddy!!
February update coming soon....
First she actually sat up long enough for me to walk away from her to answer the door. I was so excited! She can't do it all the time, but she is getting better every day.
She got a stander to help her with putting weight on her legs. She is in it 30-60 minutes a day. She usually watches Wheel of Fortune while she is in it. It is working great. We are very lucky that our physcial therapist has a storage unit full of equipment and toys and is letting us use this as long as we need it. It is VERY expensive if we would have had to buy it. Well over $1000+!!
She has also gotten pretty good at holding her sippy cup.
Here she is just chillin'.
And "camping" as Daddy calls it.
In January she also started Speech Therapy. If she didn't have the other issues she is dealing with I wouldn't have even thought about a speech therapist. But since she does and we are getting other services I decided not to chance her getting behind in speech. You can see her wheels turning when she is trying to copy something you are saying. She'll get there. She "talks" a lot to Danny and I, but is pretty quiet when the therapists are here. I have to show them videos of what she can 'say'....little stinker!
January was also busy with swim meets. It is nice to be home so when they are in the middle of the day we are still able to go cheer them on. District was at the end of January and his boys and girls both won. Yea Daddy!!
February update coming soon....
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