Wednesday, June 4th - Sunday, June 8th

Sorry that the post didn't happen over the week, but I had an unusually stressful week.

Just a few pictures of Calvin getting his therapy this Sunday...

Each week Calvin gets electric stimulation under his tongue and on his throat to help him move his food where it needs to go and with his swallowing. It is called Vital Stim therapy.

He gets it over at Chi Mei Hospital. His speech therapist is May Lu. You can see her in the photos. We believe his chewing has improved much and the swallowing has been pretty good lately. His seizures have been a bit erratic, but we blame that on the weather (hot, rainy, humid) and sometimes he just doesn't want to swallow, but I blame that on being two.

His chewing action has been excellent, though. We can feed him all kinds of stuff. Fruit, cheese, bread, (skittles, starburst) he's really good with banana... We still have to put the food near his chompers, but he chews without biting his tongue, he knows exactly what to do when the food's there. So, on we go.

Also, about the last few pictures of him, he does look boney but his nutrition is actually very good and there are whole areas that, while they are lacking in baby chub, now have muscle.

He used to be all ribs and bones, bow there's quite a bit of muscle in a lot of areas that had none.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. One again on Wednesday.

Much love

So, yeah, his ribs show a bit, but it's a big improvement from just a few months ago.