For the past two weeks or so Kaitlyn has been sick sick sick!! She got the flu back on Nov 5th and that lasted about 5 days of horribleness and it never got better! She ended up in urgent care only to find out the Flu caused Ear infections and Bronchitis (well what was thought to be anyway) and she was dehydrated. She was put on a Z-Pack to try to get rid of the Upper Respiratory stuff. I tried my best to get her to drink and hydrate for another day and we ended up spending the night in the ER with IV fluids because of the dehydration. That is when we found out she had a UTI and she was then put on Bactrim. Well we finished up those meds and Kaitlyn was still coughing and tired all the time and complaining of pain and so I took her back in to the Pediatrician where we found that the Bronchitis was actually pretty bad wheezing and asthma and she was then (in the office) started on a Nebulizer with Albuterol and Pulmicort. She was also given oral Steriods (Predisone) for 5 daysto help the inflamation in her lungs. We have been doing the Nebulizer treatments twice a day for a week. During all this fun stuff Kaitlyn started complaining about her back hurting and it hurting to pee again so we found that the Bactrim they gave us was not the right med and she needed yet another script for Duricef.
Today we had a check up again for her and we need to finish out the UTI meds before we know she is clear and we started an Asthma Action Plan! We're going to continue the Nebulizer twice a day with only the Pulmicort, unless she gets a cold and clogged up and we need to use the Albuterol. This will go for 3 more weeks and if there are no colds in the 3 weeks we can stop the Nebulizer until she might need it again. If she does happen to get sick in the next month we might end up using the Nebulizer all winter. We did get lucky and the Dr's office had a mask so I dont have to hold it for her anymore! :) Hopefully she gets used to it... it's new so she's having a hard time but we will get there.
I think that about catches us up! We're heading down to Long Island to celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday and for the weekend so we'll have to update again after that!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
School District Meeting...
First of all... here is the low down: Kaitlyn will be staying in her current PreK class, and getting a social worker once a week for 30 mins to help her with some social play therapy type stuff. They want to do every other week at school and then the other week at the house.
So pretty much we're getting nothing. We were not happy (or completely unhappy) with the meeting. We felt bullied and not really listened to and were offended by some of the very inappropriate words chosen by Nancy. We did not argue too much with the decision, mainly because the Comittee Chairperson barely let us talk or even try to argue but because we were told that the 30 min visits would happen in the class and Kaitlyn would not be taken out of the class and made to feel odd or different. I'm not sure I believe it but at this point we're going to wait and see what happens.
I dont understand their thinking in not intensively helping Kaitlyn NOW since she is "gifted or a Genius" as they put it and she can learn now. They said that she will go in a Kindergarten class with mixed (Special needs & nuerotypical) kids and a regular and special ed teacher and that will be where she gets the most help... I'm not sure if it has to do with money (probably!) but I just dont get that part.
We dont think Nancy, the Chairperson, has ever been to Crossroads because she said her whole VERY inappropriate piece about not sending Kaitlyn there and why and she said "you really should see these types of places before you think about sending your child there." and Jon spoke up with "actually, we HAVE been there and saw the class that Kaitlyn would be in and we saw NONE of what you are describing but just the opposite." That was when her mouth about hit the floor and she started to stumble over her words and said that we must have gone at a different time then she did hahahaha it was quite funny, actually!
We decided to give this a shot and if this is not helping/working then we will set up another meeting and tell them she needs more and/or figure out what to do from there.
So pretty much we're getting nothing. We were not happy (or completely unhappy) with the meeting. We felt bullied and not really listened to and were offended by some of the very inappropriate words chosen by Nancy. We did not argue too much with the decision, mainly because the Comittee Chairperson barely let us talk or even try to argue but because we were told that the 30 min visits would happen in the class and Kaitlyn would not be taken out of the class and made to feel odd or different. I'm not sure I believe it but at this point we're going to wait and see what happens.
I dont understand their thinking in not intensively helping Kaitlyn NOW since she is "gifted or a Genius" as they put it and she can learn now. They said that she will go in a Kindergarten class with mixed (Special needs & nuerotypical) kids and a regular and special ed teacher and that will be where she gets the most help... I'm not sure if it has to do with money (probably!) but I just dont get that part.
We dont think Nancy, the Chairperson, has ever been to Crossroads because she said her whole VERY inappropriate piece about not sending Kaitlyn there and why and she said "you really should see these types of places before you think about sending your child there." and Jon spoke up with "actually, we HAVE been there and saw the class that Kaitlyn would be in and we saw NONE of what you are describing but just the opposite." That was when her mouth about hit the floor and she started to stumble over her words and said that we must have gone at a different time then she did hahahaha it was quite funny, actually!
We decided to give this a shot and if this is not helping/working then we will set up another meeting and tell them she needs more and/or figure out what to do from there.
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