November 3, 2008
I’m still looking for an aide for Avery if anyone is interested or knows someone that might be interested. You won’t have to do much. I just need an extra set of hands to help at the doctor and maybe stay here with Avery occasionally so I can run errands. I’m getting ready to start a weekend job so this will be M-F but is very flexible unless there is a dr appointment that we have to go to. It’s up to 30 hrs a week. The home health company doesn’t require that you have any prior experience so don’t worry about that. When we first signed up with them they didn’t have any available aides to help us. I got a phone call from them today letting me know that they will be sending someone out here on Wednesday. Good right? I thought so too until I found out more info. The person they are sending out here isn’t even an employee at the company yet. She’s going tomorrow to the home health office to fill out the application and all paperwork and then the very next day they are sending her here. I don’t feel comfortable that this person isn’t even on the payroll yet and they’ve already assigned her to us. I would think if they do the appropriate background checks etc it would take longer than a day to get her to my house. Anyway, I’m very skeptical about this whole situation and worry about having a complete stranger in my home. So if ANYONE is looking for some part time work during the week or knows ANYONE who is trustworthy and is looking for some part time work PLEASE get in touch with me ASAP.
As far as Avery he’s doing excellent! Therapy and school is doing wonders for him and we’re in the process of ordering his gait trainer to get him walking. The tests came back on his kidney and showed no signs of reflux so we’ve stopped giving him the meds. About a week or so ago he started wetting his diaper so bad we would have to change his diaper and his clothes. This isn’t normal for Avery to pee that much at once so we went back to the pediatrician to have a urine culture done. We should hear the results of that any day now.
We finally get to go to the dentist next week. We’ve been waiting what seems like forever for this appt. Avery’s teeth are in horrible shape so I can just imagine what they’re going to have to do to him. The last dentist we saw talked about capping half and pulling the other half that were so bad they couldn’t be saved. We’ll see if that’s still the same plan or if they want to take another approach.
In two weeks we go back to the neurologist to follow up on Avery’s seizures and make sure the meds are at the right dosage. Other than those two visits and our normal therapy it should be a slow month….let’s hope so anyway.
Hope everyone has a great week!