Arrival In Birmingham

Sorry for the late posting. The last few weeks were eventful with another kidney stone for Amanda and gall bladder surgery for me. We are both healed up now and doing great.

Amanda has some more big news. In addition to learning to get to a sitting position by herself, she is now clapping for herself when she does a good job at something. Her other big news, besides the really big news of her UAB Constraint Therapy, is that we are switching Amanda off of her Topamax (her anticonvulsant associated with kidney stones and onto a new medicine named Keppra). Thus far, we are up and Keppra to a therapeutic dose and coming down slowly off of Topamax. So far so good.

We arrived early today in Birmingham so that we could get ready for Amanda's therapy, which starts in the morning. Unfortunately, our $2200 per month apartment was filty and we are staying in a hotel tonight. We hope to get the situation fixed tomorrow. So much for planning ahead so we would get settled. However, that is minor in the whole scheme of life.

We are very much looking forward to Amanda's month of intensive therapy. She gets evaluated tomorrow, gets her cast, and starts therapy. She will have 6 hours of therapy 5-6 days per week for the whole month. We will be here until December 21 or 22. Hopefully, we will see lots of progress in the weeks ahead. I will keep you posted frequently on how things are going. These are exciting times ....