Well, we are done with the feeding clinic now. We are now in outpatient services, and Sarah goes once a week for feeding therapy, followed by a speech therapy session as well at the same hospital. I pulled her out of the speech clinic at the college due to our schedule being very full as it is. If I'd kept her in speech at the college, that would be three afternoons a week we're out of the house for therapy and she won't be taking a nap. That's too much on her, and way too much on me. Besides, she absolutely loves the speech therapist she had while at the clinic, and I am really happy we can continue with her.
In typical Sarah fashion, she went out of the feeding clinic with a bang. Shortly before it was time to feed her lunch, the head doctor at the clinic told me she was limping. Nobody was sure why or what happened. She had come back from the sensory motor group (where they take the kids to the physical therapy gym and let them play on the equipment), and as far as anybody could tell, nothing happened there. She even walked all the way down the hall back to the playroom at the clinic. She just started limping out of the blue. Anyway, he was telling me that the nurse practitioner was calling our pediatrician's office to get us an appointment.
They brought me back to see her and the nurse practitioner got her an appointment for a time when she'd normally have her afternoon snack. If she's going to miss something, I'd rather it be that than lunch. I fed her lunch and she did a great job, and then her main therapist and one of the playroom ladies carried her and her stuff out to the car for me.
I let her lay on our bed and watch a DVD while I ate my lunch, and then we headed to the doctor's office. The doctor watched her try to walk and checked her out. She said that she looked okay and it was likely just a mild sprain, but sent her for x-rays just to be safe.
The x-ray lab was in the next building over, and unfortunately I had to call Rob out of a meeting to go into the room with Sarah. I can't go in while pregnant without being covered in lead and signing a waiver. It wasn't a risk we were willing to take, so he went back with her. She didn't want to hold still, and was very frightened. Which is to be expected. But the good news is, nothing was broken, and we were sent home and told to give her Motrin.
Friday night she crawled a lot and hardly walked, but Saturday morning she was jumping on the bed! She still had a slight limp on Saturday and Sunday, but the limp is completely gone as of yesterday morning. What a relief!
Today was Sarah's first day of school. I took her to school myself because she had a ton of supplies and I wanted to get her settled. The bus came this morning anyway (on time), and they told me they want her on the curb five minutes before their arrival time. Good to know for tomorrow! She smiled all the way into the building and classroom. She seemed a bit uneasy going into the classroom, but was just barely fussing when I left. I didn't drag it out, which I think helped.
I ran much-needed errands and stocked up as best as I could since I will likely stop driving after this week as I am getting too big to fit behind the steering wheel!
I managed to finish my errands and eat a quick lunch before her bus arrived (a couple minutes early). Sarah was so excited to see me! She got off the bus as happy as can be. The bus driver said she was a little upset at first, but calmed down once they got moving. We both figure in a couple days she'll be used to this and will do just fine. She was happily running around the house when she got in, and I got a note from her teacher saying she had a good day. She got upset a few times, but played nicely with the boys in her class (she's the only girl).
I'm really excited about tomorrow since all I'll have to do is get her on and off the bus!
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