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Rett Clinic

Lydia takes on Denver! This week Mark, Lydia, and I were able to go to Colorado so Lydia could attend the Rett Clinic at the Children’s Hospital Colorado. Very quickly after receiving Lydia’s diagnosis and scrambling to find everything we could about it, we discovered that there are several Rett Clinics throughout the country. This …

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Overwhelm

Three Month Lydia Update: It has now been three months since Lydia’s diagnosis and it feels so much longer. If I were to give one word to update on where we are at three months in, it would be OVERWHELM. I am so overwhelmed ALL. THE. TIME. Calm Before the Storm The first two months …

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New Base Line

It has been a month since Lydia was diagnosed with Rett Syndrome and I’ve been having some thoughts that I want to write down. When Lydia received her diagnosis, the thoughts that I shared were completely honest. I felt so much peace about everything. And I am so grateful for that. I don’t know if …

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First Day of Nursery

Lydia turned nursery-age during the shut down of COVID and it wasn’t high on my list of things to think about. But when they announced earlier this month that we would begin going back to church for the whole two hours, I realized that it was something we needed to discuss. Mark and I agreed …

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Rett Syndrome

This has been quite a year. Last March, a week before the world shut down to COVID, was the first time we expressed concern about our sweet little girl to our pediatrician. Since then, there has been a DEPTH of emotions. We have been stretched {sometimes it felt to our breaking point}. But this week, …

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Power Pack

Just two days after Lydia’s EEG, we went down for a different appointment at Primary’s. We went back to the beginning (this was the first clinic Lydia had an appointment with) and had an appointment at the HEFT Clinic. We met with the same gastroenterologist, speech language pathologist, and dietitian. The reason for this appointment …

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72 Hour EEG

About a month ago, Lydia went in for her first EEG. The results showed that it was abnormal. Lydia didn’t show a seizure but it showed a “seizure tendency”. We were given a couple options and decided that we wanted to do further testing to see if we could figure out IF there was a …

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ENT

When Lydia was getting her ABR last month, the team that was sedating her was concerned that she might have a floppy airway (there is a technical term but I can never remember it!). They highly encouraged me to get Lydia seen by an ENT. Our case manager got right on it and we got …

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Stander

The day after Lydia’s ABR, she had a BIG physical therapy appointment. On top of all of Lydia’s doctor’s appointments, she is still receiving physical therapy, feeding therapy, language therapy, and they are talking about starting occupational therapy 😳. It’s A LOT. There’s no other way to put it. But we love Lydia’s therapists and …