Short Update

Not going to go into a lot of detail just yet. But we are having a few other tests done on Dacotah to see what all is going on. His sleep has started to improve with Reiki (A Japanese alternative that involves: a healing technique based on the principle that the therapist can channel energy into the patient by means of touch, to activate the natural healing processes of the patient's body and restore physical and emotional well-being.) His sleep isn't perfect yet but I'll take waking every 3-4 hours over every 2 hours all night. He did have one night where he slept through the night!!! WHICH was a major lifesaver for mommy. It's always fun when you wake up and realize he's not woken up and you shake him and yell at him and he doesn't move, but then takes a big breath as if to say "LEAVE ME ALONE". Talk about a heart attack!

He is starting to babble. We've noticed over the past two weeks he will just jabber up a storm with his sister. We can't understand him, which is so frustrating, but he giggles and laughs with her.

He's started this frustrating thing where he asks for something to eat, beckoning for you to open it, you open it, and he refuses it, and goes and grabs another can of the exact same thing. I'm wondering if he likes the sound or something.

We took him to the dentist on Monday. We knew he had some bad cavities on his front teeth so I was expecting them to need to be filled. With Sensory Processing to the degree which he has, getting anything into his mouth (UNLESS he puts it there) is non-existent. Ask the ladies at the dentist who tried getting an xray film into his mouth. The weighted vest threw him into full on panic mode and he scream and squalled a good 15 minutes. So the dentist comes in and says he'd need crowns on the front (which will be white) and silver on the back teeth. All 16 teeth will be capped to prevent further tooth damage. It is our goal that by the time he is 5 and starts losing his baby teeth that OT and I have made progress and can get his toothbrush in his mouth to take care of them. August 16th, he will undergo general anesthesia at the children's hospital and the dental work will be done. The thought of putting him to sleep is scary but I know he's in good hands as Britt Bowers regularly does it with his special needs kids.

We took him to Dr. Cook Monday afternoon. Again I won't go into detail except to say she wants to see him again next Friday for another test and she ordered some labs on him. Once we have a diagnosis we will share once we have time to process anything that comes from the blood work or additional testing.

OT and Speech has been upgraded to once a week until he is 3 through early learning. At which time it's through the "school system" not sure of all that entails just yet, we will deal with that bridge when we get there.