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Friday, December 2, 2011

Gratitude

I am just now beginning to register the amount of love and support I've received these past few days. I keep reading these insightful, thoughtful responses to my post over and over again, unable to believe how lucky I am to have such wonderful friends and family. 

So today I am grateful. Grateful for the people around me, and grateful that I have such an amazing little boy who has allowed me to experience this. 

I am also grateful for the help we've received from our Early Intervention therapists over the past year. Through the state, we're able to receive occupational and physical therapy once a week, and special education, which works on basic cognition skills, twice a week. We don't pay anything for these services. Here is our special educator, giving Charlie some heavy-duty stimulation before we sat down to do some "work" this morning:




Our special educator was actually schooled as an occupational therapist (OT) in the Philippines, but hasn't yet switched his certification over, so he works as an SE. That means that we get some "extra" OT twice a week. I'm VERY grateful for him!

I will be introducing the rest of our awesome therapists during the next few weeks. In addition to Early Intervention (EI), we also take Charlie to myofascial release therapy, and I am currently looking into getting Charlie private physical, speech, and occupational therapy. I'm getting exhausted just thinking about it! I guess today I'm also grateful for coffee...


That's all I have to share with you today. Thank you all again so much for being such incredible and inspiring pillars of support.