We’re so grateful to the Lord that yesterday’s EUA went well! It was a long (hungry) day for Cam because he went into theatre later than normal, but Murray and Jacobus were both really happy with his eyes. The stitch in his left cornea came out easily, his corneas and retinas are still looking healthy, and his pressures are fine: 19 in the right eye and 16 in the left. The contact lens prescription for his left eye has changed a little, which we expected. He recovered from the anaesthetic without too much trauma and ate a good supper last night. We really appreciated people’s calls to find out how it went! :)
This morning my Mom and I took Cam to Anri-Louise, his amazing occupational therapist, for another full assessment. She has already met with his teacher at Heavenly Babies to train her for working with a VI toddler. We spent a good hour and a half with Anri, and Cam loved every minute of it – so much colour, so many toys, textures, sounds and surfaces…! Anri-Louise says that he is exactly on track for an almost-fourteen-month-old in terms of language and gross motor skills (i.e. he is walking and talking like he should be – and understanding far more of what we say than we realise!), but he is about two months behind when it comes to his fine motor skills, because that kind of dexterity relies so much on visual feedback, and he is having to rely mostly on touch and sound. So, we have lots of daily therapy ahead of us to ‘catch him up’. Please pray for us, for wisdom to know just how to work with him and for discernment to recognize opportunities to practise these fine motor skills with him in day to day life. It’s easy for me to get overwhelmed and to feel as if I should be working with him intensively 24/7, so I need a sense of calm and perspective, and just to keep on doing the next right thing.
(The specs that he’s playing with in the photos aren’t his. He’s just learning what they are and where they should sit on his face – part of ‘object permanence’) :)
This morning my Mom and I took Cam to Anri-Louise, his amazing occupational therapist, for another full assessment. She has already met with his teacher at Heavenly Babies to train her for working with a VI toddler. We spent a good hour and a half with Anri, and Cam loved every minute of it – so much colour, so many toys, textures, sounds and surfaces…! Anri-Louise says that he is exactly on track for an almost-fourteen-month-old in terms of language and gross motor skills (i.e. he is walking and talking like he should be – and understanding far more of what we say than we realise!), but he is about two months behind when it comes to his fine motor skills, because that kind of dexterity relies so much on visual feedback, and he is having to rely mostly on touch and sound. So, we have lots of daily therapy ahead of us to ‘catch him up’. Please pray for us, for wisdom to know just how to work with him and for discernment to recognize opportunities to practise these fine motor skills with him in day to day life. It’s easy for me to get overwhelmed and to feel as if I should be working with him intensively 24/7, so I need a sense of calm and perspective, and just to keep on doing the next right thing.
(The specs that he’s playing with in the photos aren’t his. He’s just learning what they are and where they should sit on his face – part of ‘object permanence’) :)
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