Well, I'm not sure today was very good. D had a recheck at the opthomologist this morning. The good news is that he can see great with his new glasses (despite the scratches he has gotten on the lens), but the bad news is that the opthomologist doesn't want to even try patching. She wants to do surgery on BOTH eyes. She says he switches crossing from one eye to the other, so patching won't work. I'm not sure I agree. Maybe he crosses over a little on the right eye, but the left eye is far worse. I don't know... I will definitely have to get a second opinion before I let anyone cut on both his eyes. I am really concerned that the surgery will be unsuccessful or make his eyes worse. I mentioned the fact that he has CP, and won't that complicate surgery. She said that they would take that into account during surgery... Still I am very nervous about this. I need to get other opinions. Eye surgery makes me extremely squeamish, and when I think of surgery on my child's eyes, I really start to freak out...
We also went to physical therapy today, and the therapist said she only has afternoon appointments on Mondays at 2:00 pm. That means I would have to take D out of school early every Monday. I'm not sure I want to do that. I definitely will not take him out early next Monday-- it's the first day of school. So he will most likely get no PT next week.
Which brings me to the other frustrating experience I had today. I took Big A and D to their new school for Open House this afternoon. When we went to get their room assignments, I discovered that they had been put in separate classes. On Monday when I registered D they had been given the same teacher. That was easy enough to fix, I just went to the Assistant Principal and asked that they be put back together. She did it, no problem. But when we went to look for the room to meet the teacher, I discovered that they had just added this Kindergarten class and the teacher had previously taught first grade and had just learned that she had been switched to teach Kindergarten. Then they said that she may not even be the teacher that would end up teaching the class and that the classroom we were in may not actually be the classroom that the kids would be in. Basically, the whole situation was totally disorganized. It did not give me a good feeling at all. I told the teacher about D's history and the fact that he would be extremely behind the other students, and I detected a hint of irritation or concern on her part. I could be wrong, but I felt like she just didn't want to be bothered with a student that would require some extra help. Maybe she was just pissed off that she would have to teach a bunch of Kindergartners in the first place. I hope I am wrong, and I hope that she is a wonderful teacher who has a lot of patience. She is going to need a lot of patience with my two!!! She has no idea what she is in for... The whole Open House experience left me stressed out. I hope they get it together by Monday!
I have to say that today did not help my mood. I have been so down feeling lately. Now I feel even worse. I have got to snap out of this gloom. Summer has come to an end entirely too fast for me. The summer has been somewhat of a blur--first we traveled to Russia, then we were all getting used to each other, now the kids are starting a new school... Meanwhile, I'm struggling to make a living in a terrible economy. Sometimes I wish the pace would just slow down a bit. The family dynamic has definitely improved-- Little A and D are having more periods of calm between the fights, maybe D's screaming has toned down to just shy of ear splitting, Big A has really stepped up to help me keep the "little ones" in line. But I still feel like I am always behind on everything--work, house cleaning, bill paying, you name it. So instead of catching up on these things, I am sitting here writing this blog... Now I am going to go to bed. I guess I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara and worry about it all tomorrow...
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