Time off

Today was our weekly review meeting. Brady's week last week consisted of FIFTY EIGHT hours of therapy (17 of that from Doug and I). Crazy. He had a great week. The results seemed slightly diluted by the fact that he had such a banner week the week before. But we certainly have nothing to complain about. It was a really tough weekend removing his "clutchables" but he seems to have pretty much abandoned that behavior in only a few days time. It's amazing - this stuff really works. One highlight: we had a goal of 1 vocal imitation (word or approximation) per session and he averaged SIX.

Now we even have a couple of objectives for big brother that will make life easier for all of us (example - having him play independently when I need him to vs. when he feels like it). It'll be interesting to see how it works on him - in some ways, he is the tougher nut to crack.

We're still feeling pretty worn down around here though. Our PCA has been hired but we have to wait for a cleared background check so it will be next week or the following before we get any relief there. One of our therapists has pneumonia so we ended up with a couple of "free" hours today. So strange - it was literally only from 2:30 - 5 and it felt like a really long time. It's amazing what you get used to. Earlier today, our senior therapist asked if I was under the weather and then suggested we take tomorrow morning off from my parent training. I guess it's obvious that I'm worn out. So tomorrow I will have 2.5 hours while big brother is in school. I will have to be home for all but an hour of it but I assure you that I can think of many, many ways to fill my time. And I'm looking forward to it. I can guarantee that I will not make near the dent in my list that I think I can.