We got the boys ready as usual. Mel came and tutored Casey for an hour and Colin did advisory and then his theater class.
Casey read some Marcello and Colin watched A Christmas Carol for the 100th time.
Gene was able to come with us to the dentist appointments. I HATE driving in Burlington and I especially hate driving the van there so I'm glad he was able to get away for a while. For some reason, Dr. Bookwalter likes to see us at the Burlington office instead of So. Burlington. He thinks the offices are bigger but I beg to differ.
Anyway, we actually made it on time and we hardly had to wait a minute until we were called back. Casey went first. Dr. B is always fascinated with Casey's DynaVox. Casey didn't have much to say but that was because he was tipped back so far that his hand was slipping off of his switch. Not much new with Casey. He still thinks that he has good, strong teeth and gums. He says he has very little chance at developing any cavities. He only scraped a tiny bit of dried saliva off the back of his front teeth; everything else was clean as a whistle, well, except for the staining on his front teeth. Dr. B polished them a bit but the stain is mostly inherent in his teeth because of the air drying the spit on his teeth all these years. Casey and Nancy headed over to the Dollar Store.
Colin went in next. He said, "Ahhh" right away. Colin still has about 4 teeth left to lose. He said he's actually on target for his age. There was one loose tooth on the top that we had been watching and Dr. B said that it was ready to go and that he'd pull it. So, he asked his nurse for a spoon--I know it's a dental tool, but it freaked me out anyway. I held Colin's hand and looked the other way. Splooooch--out it came! There was a little blood but no more than we expected. Colin kept saying it hurt and he wanted Tylenol, which is SO not like him but I don't think it hurt that badly. He also got a good report.
Both boys are set for a year unless we have any issues or if we need him to pull out another tooth. I secretly think Gene likes to do it himself, so we'll see.
Gene, Colin and I headed to the Dollar Store. We were in there for several minutes and I didn't hear Casey at all! If you know Casey, that's a GOOD thing. Finally, I heard his vent before I heard his voice. He is really learning to control his voice when he's in public. Well, except for the movies...but we're getting there.
Casey picked out two books. One was the Chicken Soup book for the American Idol and one was on the Rose Bowl, or was it the Peach Bowl??? Colin said no to everything until we came to the gross, plastic, redneck buck teeth and then he insisted on those. He even passed over the wrestling mania belt!
Headed home. Casey went into the living room to click some channels. Colin settled into his spot to watch some TV.
I has some lunch and then it was time to head to the meeting. When I got there, I realized I didn't know where Emily's office was so I wandered a bit and then found Claire (OT) so we found everyone together. It was supposed to be an eval planning meeting but we started off with some general stuff. And, drum roll....Emily said she had talked to Tim (special ed coordinator) and it looks like the funding is there for the VGo!!!!!!! So now Emily will talk with the rep and see if we can get a real trial. Last year we saw the VGo in action from our house while the VGo was in the warehouse. But this trial will be cooler, of course. Also talked about putting all of Colin's work on the wiki like we have Casey's. Talked about using Google Drive so the kids and Colin could share work and comment on each others work. Lots of other good ideas were shared as well.
Julie was here for Wii Wednesday. Colin picked out the Redneck wii game going along with his tooth being pulled and picking out the ugly plastic teeth. He is so funny but serious about it at the same time. Casey picked one of the Sponge Bob games and neither objected to the others picks.
Oh, Paul (RT) was here earlier and dropped off the extra heater for Casey. I think, at this point, I'll send it in to school after Thanksgiving break since they'll be off the WHOLE week. It would be silly to send in the humidifier, water, tubing, etc. for only two days but after that we'll see if it helps keep him from getting too dried out being on the HME for the day. At least he'll have about 45 minutes on the heater to get some warm, moisture in his trach.
Here's Colin with his tooth.
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