When you were most grateful?

I was most grateful when Piper graduated from Occupational Therapy.  It has been two years since she was born.  When she was born I was so scared.  The whole world looked strange to me.  I no longer trusted the comfort of my own dreams for my family.  The future was unpredictable.  I was so frightened that she might die or be physically disabled.  She grew stronger every day and came home in March before her due date and was healthy, no malformations, no brain bleeds.  She still had a challenge with coordinating her suck swallow breath but hey she could swallow.

I started her in Early Intervention right away.  She was evaluated in May.  She automatically qualified because she was born so early.  We were assigned an Occupational Therapist.  The first focus was on her suck swallow breath coordination.  It was immediate.  The advice of the OT worked wonders she was able to do it if she wasn’t distracted before the next OT visit two weeks later.

A year later at her evaluation in May we had overcome many obstacles her sensory seeking behavior was normalizing.  Her torticollis was not that bad.  She was walking and learning to talk.  We continued the therapy and added a couple goals around speech.  She had just started Day Care in April and I was not sure how she would adjust.  We had a couple months of slow progress she was sick a lot she was prescribed a preventative nebulizer treatment.  As soon as she was healthy again she burst forth all sorts of new words and abilities.

We worked on her neck and before I knew it when the OT asked me what my concerns were I didn’t have any.  A year and a half after she was born and poof like that, no more concerns.  I said “let’s keep an eye on her neck” so we scheduled our next appointment for two months later. (Not two weeks two months.) We met the OT in October and Piper was doing great. No more OT for now, we did not decline services we are still in early intervention but there are no immediate concerns.  I am so grateful to Lorna and her wonderful skills and patience. I am so grateful to God for his plans.

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” New International Version (NIV)