NoJoMo 16 in NOJOMO

Last week I talked about how Dakota was going to be discharged from OT and PT as soon as he used up his remaining appointments, but all the therapists want him to continue with social group. So they were trying to find a way to make this work.

Yesterday, his OT Madison came out and talked to me and said they had reached a decision. They were going to let Dakota continue coming to social group but they wouldn’t be billing anyone for it. So basically, he gets to come for free. Mainly because since he’s not being treated there by anyone, so they would be necessarily working on any specific skills with him. Also, he’d be coming as kind of a peer model since he does such a good job at leading and helping the other kids if they’re having difficulties.

I was shocked and thanked her profusely. I am definitely proud of him, as well. How awesome is it that they see him as a person who can help other kids on the spectrum?! I think him being so high functioning definitely helps, because he can kinda see both sides of things if that makes sense.

I think his appointments will run until the end of the year or so. Sawyer will still go for his Speech and food therapy. I’m assuming once his food therapy appointments run out then they won’t be doing anymore. He pretty much has it down and isn’t so scared to try new foods.

Yesterday, I sent him with some soup that we had the other day for dinner. It had beans, carrots, and venison in it. Usually, he eats one thing at a time and really picks through it. Yesterday, she had him eating two different things at once - like a piece of carrot with a bean. I also sent him with a PB&J, which seems silly, but he would only ever eat a peanut butter sandwich. Well, he came back out into the waiting room with jelly all over his face - so he LOVED it.

The kid has kept himself from so many different foods basically because of his stubbornness. I’m glad he’s finally able to overcome it though. I’m definitely looking forward to Thanksgiving with him this year.

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Bobby had some car trouble yesterday. His check engine light came on in the morning. It brought him back to wanting to get rid of his truck. His truck is a big diesel - so parts for it tend to be harder to get ahold of and they’re definitely more expensive. He completely impulse bought this truck.

I was pretty much on the verge of a panic attack because of all of this. I was back in the mind space of we’re never going to get ahead. We’ve already used what we had managed to put in savings, so we’re back to starting over again which is just frustrating. It’s a hard time of year to even attempt to save anything as well. I’m praying that after the new year we can get on track and start building that savings up.

Thankfully, all he needed to do was replace a sensor that he was able to find pretty easily. So this time it was a pretty easy fix. I’m hoping I can hold him off on getting rid of it for awhile. All of our tax refund this year has got to go to paying off credit cards. It has to.

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Nowhere to go today, thankfully. I definitely need to knock some things off my to do list after we get school done, so I guess I better get the kiddos up.