Josiah will have his yearly MRI on Thursday. It should be a pretty quick in and out appointment. First, he’ll get an IV and blood drawn for labs and check in with the doctor. Then he’ll head down for the MRI. Since he doesn’t need to be sedated anymore, we’ll be able to leave from […]
Intensive Therapy Round 3
April 2019 Josiah’s intensive therapy went great! It’s an adjustment for our family for me to be gone all day, but his progress makes it worth it! This time was more difficult for Josiah because he attended school in the mornings and ending at 5:00 most days. He did some hard work! In all, Josiah […]
Feeling all the Feelings
Pretending to be a bug when taking a snack break! Josiah has started intensive therapy. Intensive = 45 hours of physical therapy, 40 hours of occupational therapy, and 20 hours of speech therapy in 20 days. It’s been a good week so far. Our weekend was full of late nights and early mornings, so he […]
Intensive Therapy – Feb. 2018
Intensive Therapy During the month of February, Josiah took a month off of school to focus on Physical (PT), Occupational (OT) and Speech therapies. Over the course of four weeks, Josiah had 3 hours of PT 5x/week, 2 hours of OT 3x/week and 1 hour of speech 2x/week. Needless to say, Josiah was pretty worn […]
Therapy, CP Clinic, and a New Leg Brace
The past two weeks have been very busy with appointments! Josiah even got a much needed haircut! Therapy Evaluations First, Josiah had speech and OT therapy evaluations completed. He did great with these and really hit it off with the new therapists. During the month of February he will be doing Intensive Therapy. Unfortunately, he’s […]
Nov 2017 – Jan 2018 Medical Update
MRI Josiah was scheduled to have an MRI in November. The morning of the MRI, Josiah woke up sick, so the appointment was cancelled. It has been rescheduled for next week, January 17th in the afternoon. Serial Casting Josiah did have some serial casting at the end of November. It went amazingly well! Josiah did […]
February 2017 Medical Update
It’s been a busy month, medically speaking. February 1st – CP Clinic This is a clinic where Josiah sees a team of doctors and therapists. He saw Occupational, Physical & Speech therapists, a nutritionist, pediatrician, orthopedic surgeon, and his rehabilitation doctor. The therapies are all going well and we are going to continue with what […]