What does a crab say? |
Come to find out she has a hole in her heart and a macro adenoma (tumor) on her pituitary gland in her brain. But....that's a story for another blog :)
During that same time, we discovered that Jake's T-tubes had fallen out. How can that possibly be? Those buggers are sewn into the ear drum and don't fall out. They're surgically removed.
So, in January, he had his second set of tubes put in, and the ENT said this ears had looked horrible when he did the surgery - pieces of flesh were removed, both ears were highly inflamed, lots of fluid behind the eardrum, etc. Yeah, all sorts of nasty fun.
But, when the surgery was done, he began to hear. How do I know? Well, he'd walk into the ENT's entryway, which was basically a stairwell, and yell to hear his echo. It was adorable - in a cute sort of way.
What does a Lizard say? |
Now, we begin playing the game of catch-up. Still, at 4 1/2 years old, Jake is basically non-verbal. Occasionally (as in once every 2 or 3 weeks) he will say a one or two word comment, which his hard to understand unless you're looking for it. But other than that, life is all about a series of grunts, hand gestures, and pulling on my hand to show me what he wants.
Last week we were finally able to start Gemiini again - after nearly 7 months. I figured we'd be starting all over again. But you know what? It wasn't like that at all.
We were able to get about 20 minutes in that morning. And another 10 in during the afternoon.
But I know that people were waiting on an update. So this is the first. I'll add a video of him watching Gemiini in a couple days so you can see where he's at in the process. Then I'll give you more updates as we progress.
Thanks for your patience!
4 comments:
My son is autistic and Im going to Gemini conference in the morning - Im hoping to start him on it Monday. Its been nice reading your blog! Keep us updated!! ialford6772@gmail.com
My son is autistic and Im going to Gemini conference in the morning - Im hoping to start him on it Monday. Its been nice reading your blog! Keep us updated!! ialford6772@gmail.com
Are you still using Gemiini? Any updates?
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