2nd grade and hyperbaric sessions...

Hard to believe my lil' sweetie is 7 1/2 yrs old already and in second grade.  She's growing up SO fast!
This past week we've started on another long stint of hyperbaric oxygen therapy sessions...monday thru friday we're up at 530 am so we can go and then Arianna can make it to school and me to work afterwards. Going good so far..we're both kind of tired but doing well. Arianna is LOVING her second grade class and especially likes eating lunch with her friends.
Arianna can hardly wait for Halloween this year...she's dressing up as Jasmine and very excited about that. :) Also have a trip to Florida in November...a bitter sweet vacation, one that my mom had wanted to make with us before she passed away.
Take care and we'll keep you posted along the way with how our sessions are going and how Arianna responds to them. Hugs and Love...

Hooray to 2nd grade!

Today was Arianna's first full day being a second grader and I'm already very proud of her. Today she ate lunch with her friends in general ed class which is the plan for EVERY day now. She's becoming much more independent in allot of ways and that makes me very happy.  Today we had a mishap with her milk cup and "George the monkey", who's been way overdue for retirement, got all soaked. SOOoo, mom had a brilliant idea that it was time George goes into storage with some of her old 'friends' and she got a brand new BIG sized Brittany chipmunk stuffed doll as her new "big girl" buddy since she's a big girl in 2nd grade. So far she's LOVING the new pal and hope the transition stays smooth as we move along.
Some GREAT news is that starting October this year, we will be doing hyperbaric sessions Monday through Friday for up to 6 consecutive weeks with hopes of a big healing to take place. We should finish up just before our trip to Florida for a week of vacation. It'll be super early start times for our day and crazy busy for a while but pray that it's worth the hard work and sacrifices we'll have to make.  For this month of September we are preparing for hyperbaric by some diet changes again and adding her supplements back into our routine to add to the healing benefits we pray are to come. Wish us luck!

Summertime...

It sure has been a HOT summer this year! We got to see some great fireworks this 4th of July and visited an outside mall a couple times so Arianna could play in the water fountains. Two weeks ago we started some hyperbaric sessions and added in some new supplements...Arianna has been doing well with the twice a week sessions and we continue to work on her conversation skills/speech. We've applied for another grant to see if we can get some help to do the recommended 40 sessions which would be wonderful! Hope to hear some good news mid to end of September.

One month left before it's back to school time for my future 2nd grader. Arianna has got to go on quite a few neat field trips with her daycare friends such as a local music stadium, a lunch/tour of a restaurant, visiting a retirement home to do crafts and sing karaoke songs for them, a magician visited, a yoga instructor and also the favorite frozen ice truck too. Next month is Karate and many more fun things going on....wish I could have a summer with that much fun too! :O)