we'll girl i already know he's going to fail the hearing test, with fluid in his ears still from the ear infection, maybe that's what my peditrician wants? oh well ,, I guess i'll see what her madness is when she gets his results.. i think i know she is pushing for him to get tubes, but i really don't want tubes in his ears.. but i don't want that fluid in his ears forever either..

ok its almost 9 am... have to start calling for his speech therapy now wish me luck....

good lord, i called the number and it was metal health department :eek: but they connected me with intervention, and she said someone will get back to me within 24 hours, and i was like hold on, this is the second time we are calling, my husband called friday!!! i want someone from this office to call me back today to schedule and appointment!! and she did apoligize and say someone will call back today, well they have until 2:30 and i will call back again !!!

they called back, her name is Amy, she is coming to my house monday, to do an intake??? whatever that is, then if micah falls within the 25% delay, they will start classes a couple times a week, this will be nice they will come to the house, wonderful :)...

What's this for?

Hearing assessment and possibly speech therapy, I think.

How do you get home checks?

Haley I sure pray that everything is fine with Micah. I think it's great they are coming to your home. With all you're going through it must be touch kicking the habit, but I believe you can do it.

I don't know!!!

I'm so happy for you Haley! Home visits! That's something I bet you didn't expect.

How are you feeling?

Its for speech therapy, the state pays for home visits if he falls within 25% range of being behind what a "normal" 2 year old range of speaking. Thanks to the No child will be left behind, thing.. oh well i have good insurance so i guess for once in my life the state is paying for something.

i was bad this weekend, i had a hit of my friends smoke :( oh well i didn't like it much, but im back to thinking about them all the time.... i guess that's what happens when you go out and have a couple of beers with your friends....
anyways.. we took micah to get his hearing test he fell within "normal" hearing range she was concerned about the fluid in his ears.. (imagine that!! this is what i been bitching about for a couple months now!!!) so she told me to move up his apt with his peditrician and get the fluid out of his ears, (probably needs tubes in them) and she wants to do another hearing test on him.. so this visit like i thought was a waste of time... oh well here we go again with doctors visits!!!!! there going to get so sick of seeing me.... oh well again, i'm not going to stop taking him until all that fluid is out of his ears...

Nope i really didn't expect home visits, i lucked out on this... but she is going to be there at 3:30, i'm going to have to leave work early today to go pick him up and rush home.. i hope these classes help him, i feel so bad all the crap he's being going thru lately... but we stopped at toys r us on the way home and got him a nice car to drive around in.. boy was that expensive,, i still want to get him a swing set. can't believe toys rus was out of wooden swing sets already!!!

i'm feeling ok, this cold wants to hang on for dear- life here can't seem to sake it...

you have to get a perscription thru your family doctor or peditrician.

Haley, I'm so sorry to read about all that you're dealing with right now. As you've been told every kid learns to talk at his/her own pace. I wouldn't be too concerned about Micah's lack of speech right now. Some kids just learn a lot slower than others. My daughter, Amy, had problems with being understood when she did finally talk. We worked with a speech therapist for a year or so to help improve her speech. One of the most important things that I remember learning was to have them look at your mouth and how you form words so they can see how you speak and say words. I checked into right before she went to kindergarten. Good Luck!!

That's what the speech therapist told me yesterday that boys are sometimes slower, but she was also concerned with the fluid in his ears also that he might be hearing words different and thats why he might be having a hard time saying them, but he's no dummy, you tell him to go get something like his shoes and he will go get them, he understands you, just having a tuff time saying it.. well he fell into the range for speech therapy so they will start next week, they will come to my house one day a week for an hour, so that will be nice i can see what there doing with him and try to work with him also the rest of the week.. and he also has another peditrician apt friday again at 4:30 to see what there going to do with that fluid in his ears, apparentley the antibiotics didn't clear it up and i think that's what the doctor was waiting for, i think the only thing the can do now is put tubes in his ears, which i don't want but i really don't think i have a choice right now, its that or him feeling that fluid in his ears forever and i know its driving him crazy.. so i'll let you know what they say Friday...