Back to UVA this week to follow up on ADHD meds for Olivia. we've upped the dosage once and it's working well at pre-k. Her appetite is definitely affected at the beginning of the meds and when we upped the dosage, but seems to level off after about a week. She's lost a pound or two, and we're keeping an eye on that, it seems to be coming back up now. We'll be meeting with her teacher soon to discuss what's best for Olivia next Fall. Also got her fitted for a new brace for her right foot @ UVA this week, she picked a purple one with rainbow velcro :) It'll be taller than her current one, but will help her with dragging her right toes. We'll have to go back to C'ville in a few weeks to get the brace, then follow up with Dr Norwood in 4 months, then back to Dr Montero in 6 months, so we'll be seeing a lot of 460 & 29 in the upcoming year :) Getting ready to schedule Olivia's CT head scan to prepare for surgery end of April. Also, she has show an enormous amount of "anxiety" at dentist trip last week and hair cut appt today :( She's fine until it's time for her to sit in "THE CHAIR" The DREADED chairs...but I pray that most of her reaction is from her age and she'll outgrow it (please!). Madi did fine w/haircut once I held her.
Madi is wonderful, doing great at daycare still and learning new words every day it seems. Her fav's are "Where'd it go" while throwing her hands up; "Sissy!"; "Look" while pointing; among others...she will say two if you say one, she's going to be a smart cookie :)
We have the CT scan for Olivia scheduled for March 22nd now. Her surgery is still scheduled for April 25th at 7:15am, which means we have to be there by 5:15am!!! yuck. The week before the surgery we have an pre-op appointment at Dr. Apfel's office w/PA Amy, who've we've seen before a couple of times. Please pray for the CT scan next week...not sure how to explain this to Olivia. They will be medicating her so she'll be absolutely still for the scan, the images have to be so precise to send off for them to make the piece for her head. Probably won't be going back to school that day so we can keep an eye on her (Nana babysitting :) ) I tried to trim Olivia's hair tonight in the tub and not talking about what I was doing, since that didn't work at the salon last week...well this didn't work either "I DON'T WANT YOU TO CUT MY HAIR, MOMMA!!!" OMG, she gets SO anxious about this and will not sit still! Just like at the dentist! Brian had to help me afterward so I could trim the back all one length, as I'd already started the trim in the tub! and I just did some random cuts on her bangs...hoping I didn't chop it all up! We'll see in the morning. Girls sleepover at Aunt Gi-gi's last Sat. night, so fun!!! Girls love her so much and did not want to leave on Sunday!
