UPDATES 2-10-2008

Thank you so much for visiting our site!

We appreciate all of your continuing support of Lauren. While she has many challenges, she also has so many accomplishments each week to celebrate too. Lauren turns 2 on Thursday, 2/28!

We went to Wisconsin Dells with the majority of the Nardulli family over President's Day weekend. We were wondering how Lauren would react because she has not been a fan of water for most of her life. She also was not able to get in the water for over a year after getting her g tube because the site took so long to heal. Lauren was just cleared a few months ago for tub baths again and only recently was starting to be curious enough to make a splash in her small tub. She preferred to do this while sitting on the outsite of the tub though! Lauren was a little nervous with the water at the Dells at first and did not like getting splashed in the face at all. She did like the zero-depth kids play area because she could crawl in at her own pace to warm up to it. The Occupational Therapist explains our strategy with Lauren as "systemized desensitization". Lauren is all about doing things herself and engaging on her own schedule. Therefore, we were excited just to see her even get into the water at all. By the last day, Grandma Nardulli was holding her in the big pool and Lauren seemed to really enjoy it. That is such a huge success for Lauren!

On the medical front, Lauren was scheduled to have new ear tubes and a frenulectomy (tongue clipping to allow for more tongue range of movement when eating and speaking) done this Wednesday (2/27) at Children's downtown. However, she was just diagnosed with a sinus infection on Monday and will have only had 2 days of antibiotics prior to the surgery. We are still waiting to hear from the surgeon at Children's to see if that will need to be postponed due to possible complications with anesthesia. Thanks! Amy