Buckley
Well-Known Member
An early go at this one this year.
2013 here: http://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/hows-your-year-been-2013.69979/
Did we do 2014?
*deep breath*
One of the hardest of my life. Early year worries that my 2-year-old son's speech didn't seem to be coming along, and the meltdowns he had with Mrs B becoming more apparent to me too, were swept aside for a little while as mini-me no.2 joined us. Time moved on, an operation to install grommets in his ears, giving us hope glue ear was dampening his hearing and hence a temporary delay on his speech. But no, a few months later, a diagnosis - my beautiful Tommy is autistic. How can he be? He's the most gorgeous child whoever lived! He makes eye contact! He's affectionate. I don't want to believe it. I can't believe it. He melts down in Pizza Express. People complain. The PE staff know us and offer to box up the complainants food. How kind. But I don't want sympathy. I don't. I want to fix this. I want to save my son.
But then light. Mrs B is resourceful, she's not only discovered a therapy that appears to work, there is a chance of full recovery. She puts a team together of therapists to provide 40 hours a week of therapy and we convince nursery to allow an ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis) tutor to shadow Tommy in nursery. We're three months in right now and life is so much better. The meltdowns that could last half hour plus, where the necessity if stopping him writhing on the ground, out of control, for fear he'd smash his head open, would lead to being headbutted scratched and punched, now last 5 of minutes on a bad day and are far less frequent. He has some words, 15 or so, far below the 200 an average child his age has, but 10 or more of those have come since we started therapy.
So my year. From darkness into hope. We will progress. Tommy will thrive.
I went to Ibiza and got drunk, I played a bit of a football, but nothing could ever define a year like this.
Not meant to be heavy, we are on upward curve and we will succeed, and Spotlight has been a part of my life for long enough it seems relevant.
Also, best performer of the year award to the newcomer. Billy Buckley - the kid's a dream. Slept right through from his first night in his own room.
The Buckley Brothers. Nothing will beat them:
2013 here: http://forum.ibiza-spotlight.com/threads/hows-your-year-been-2013.69979/
Did we do 2014?
*deep breath*
One of the hardest of my life. Early year worries that my 2-year-old son's speech didn't seem to be coming along, and the meltdowns he had with Mrs B becoming more apparent to me too, were swept aside for a little while as mini-me no.2 joined us. Time moved on, an operation to install grommets in his ears, giving us hope glue ear was dampening his hearing and hence a temporary delay on his speech. But no, a few months later, a diagnosis - my beautiful Tommy is autistic. How can he be? He's the most gorgeous child whoever lived! He makes eye contact! He's affectionate. I don't want to believe it. I can't believe it. He melts down in Pizza Express. People complain. The PE staff know us and offer to box up the complainants food. How kind. But I don't want sympathy. I don't. I want to fix this. I want to save my son.
But then light. Mrs B is resourceful, she's not only discovered a therapy that appears to work, there is a chance of full recovery. She puts a team together of therapists to provide 40 hours a week of therapy and we convince nursery to allow an ABA (Applied Behavioural Analysis) tutor to shadow Tommy in nursery. We're three months in right now and life is so much better. The meltdowns that could last half hour plus, where the necessity if stopping him writhing on the ground, out of control, for fear he'd smash his head open, would lead to being headbutted scratched and punched, now last 5 of minutes on a bad day and are far less frequent. He has some words, 15 or so, far below the 200 an average child his age has, but 10 or more of those have come since we started therapy.
So my year. From darkness into hope. We will progress. Tommy will thrive.
I went to Ibiza and got drunk, I played a bit of a football, but nothing could ever define a year like this.
Not meant to be heavy, we are on upward curve and we will succeed, and Spotlight has been a part of my life for long enough it seems relevant.
Also, best performer of the year award to the newcomer. Billy Buckley - the kid's a dream. Slept right through from his first night in his own room.
The Buckley Brothers. Nothing will beat them:
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