I know I'm way over due with updates!
I need to make this more of a priority to take time out and write about Jillian's progress and updates!
It's been a crazy month and every evening that I feel as though I have time, something else arises or I find myself exhausted and going to bed way too early! "No excuses!"
In the last month we celebrated Easter and Jillian's new experiences with sound!
I feel as though she is hearing some tones and responds to us on occasion!
She is at the age or old enough to know her rights from wrong!
She knows that every time she puts something besides food in her mouth that it's not allowed, she immediately looks for our responds! I'm not sure if she hears us or that she knows that she is not supposed to!?
The success I have witnessed, has been when I walk into the room as she is highly focused on a toy or cartoon and I say her name or start talking she looks my direction! So you can tell that she hears a different pitch from the TV or hears our voice when focusing on her toys!
It's amazing that there is even a responds, I'm so used to taping her on her shoulder to let her know I need her attention!
We still focus on explaining everything to her, what she is eating, the water running, the rain, the dog barking and why we do the things we do.
Her new found fun, is every night when I have to take her processor off to go to bed, she thinks it's really funny to take her pants and diaper off! This little game takes place five to seven times a night and no she never gets tired of it!
My challenge is trying to explain to her that this is not okay, as she laughs back at me and the minute I go back downstairs it's all off again! So I found at the Gap, (summer) pajamas that are one peice and feet-less! She has not yet figured out how to take them off! She's smart, give her another week!
Our biggest challenge with the CI is getting it on her and keeping it on!
She enjoys taking it off or shaking her head back and fourth so that it's hard for us to put on!
It's as if she enjoys the silence of peace and quiet! (but then again, which one of us don't) Again she finds this amusing, knowing that Dad and I are consistent with making sure that she wears it all waking hours!
She is very "hard headed" at her age (which isn't a bad thing) she knows what she wants!
She started her occupational therapy and the Doctor seems to think that it's not so much sensory, it's a behavior thing and will get better as she can hear more! Which is always positive thing to hear!
Before ending this update, I want to Thank each and every one of you, for viewing her Blog!
Before sending out the mass e-mail pertaining to her donations at http://www.rhyanshope.org/ she had 24 viewers! Now there have been a total of 165! The web site asks for only one dollar, but I ask that you send it out to all your family, friends and co-corkers!
Every dollar helps towards Jillian's second implant!
I Thank You and so does Jillian!!!
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