We took James to see the pediatrician this morning. Whatever illness he started fighting a couple of weeks ago is just not going away. If you read the “It’s Been a Long Few Days” post, you know that he had a several days of respiratory issues and a fever. We…
Because James has been sick the past several days, we decided to stay home and let James recuperate a little bit. We are not sure what that was, but I’m glad it’s gone. I have to say that I am really glad that Stacy and I are in this together.…
I originally wrote this post on Tuesday, but so much has happened over the past several days I decided to incorporate everything into one longer post. Tuesday, June 29th Okay, so Stacy called me at work Tuesday afternoon to tell me that James wasn’t doing well. He had his lunch…
A few weeks ago, we found out that James has something called auditory neuropathy which is basically a disconnect between his ears and his brain. His ears can detect sounds, but those sounds don’t make it from the ears to the brain. Stacy found a video on YouTube that is…
Back in January, I was messing around trying to come up with something to help straighten James' wrists. Because of his cerebral palsy or his muscle tone, his wrists curl in. You can see the makeshift wrist splint I made on this blog post. I tried, but they didn’t work…
Most of our family is local, or local-ish which is nice. There are a few people on Stacy’s mom’s side that live in adjoining states that hadn’t met James yet. We had a get together today so they could finally meet him. They knew about James and his medical issues…
A few weeks ago, James went to see a neuro eye doctor. One of the doctor's recommendations was to schedule a Visual Evoked Potential test with neurology. We took James to have this test done today. For the Visual Evoked Potential test, or VEP, they attached electrodes to James' head…