Membership anyone?

Update on Isaiah: He is doing much better as far as moving and using his right hand is concerned! He loves to use it to grab my hair and pull my head down so I can kiss him! We met with Isaiah's nurse Sarah and his physical therapist Nancy this past week. It is as we suspected, Isaiah will be left-handed. Now some of you may think, "and?". Well, like I said in a previous post, children don't develop a preference until they're 3 years old. However, infants and children who had a stroke usually develop this preference quite early. It has to do with how the stroke affected their brain. In Isaiah's case it affected the left side of his brain, which means that the right side of his body is affected. Now, it's not a bad thing that he will be left-handed of course, we just need to make sure we work on his right hand being fully functional. The good thing is, it doesn't seem like his right side is significantly weaker than his left, he just LOVES his left hand, or as Nancy would say:"He thinks his left hand is the bomb!" The next steps will be to see his pediatrician again and get Isaiah a referral to see a pediatric neurologist, weekly physical therapy and fill out paper work for the Exceptional Family Member Program. The EFMP is a program that the military offers for family members with a special condition. It ensures that the family only gets stationed where the family member can receive the care they need. It also helps them qualify for other programs, such as the ECHO program, which provides the family member with any thing that the basic health insurance may not cover. That will make 4 programs altogether so far that Isaiah is a part of.

PROGRAMS, PROGRAMS, PROGRAMS! It can be is overwhelming at times but we're truly thankful for all the support he gets.