2010... The year that was...

2010 was a better year than 2009. Here are some of the positives that 2010 brought:

- Ellies seizures, even though still happening, where much more controlled in 2010

- Succesful grommit surgery

- A very succesful and fun filled day with "A Run for Ellie" (Thanks Jeff & Trace)

- Ellie started rolling from front to back and back to front

- Ellie can lie on her tummy for short periods and hold her head up

- Ellie received her hearing aids

- Ellie received her standing frame and can now weight bear for periods of up to 25 minutes in the frame and about 30secs - 1 minute without with us holding her arms

- Ellie started to eat textures such as risotto

- I fought hard to get Ellie into a program that originally wouldnt accept her because of where we lived

- Ellie got her second glass eye, that was suprisingly bigger than her first

- We have also got to met meet 4 families with children with WHS

- Ellie started Hydrotherapy

& Lastly my favourite positive..... Ellie has become so much more interactive, aware, smiley, funny etc... Her personality has blossomed in 2010 and I feel this has so much to do with her being alot healthier this year

2010 also brought some hard times which included:

- The discussion about fitting Ellie with a gastric feeding tube as we were struggling to get Ellie to put on weight, in fact for about 3 months she lost weight constantly. Currently her weight is 8.3kgs and her weight gain, though not massive, it is slowly increasing.

- 7 weeks of brochilitis in winter which pretty much kept us house bound, and brought on violent vomitting from coughin

- A hideous rash caused by a viral infection and a UTI, all which brought on some small seizures

With saying all that I truly feel that 2010 was a better year health & develpment wise for Ellie. I am also exicted about what 2011 will bring for Ellie as she is starting at CPEC in term 1 for their conductive education program and also starting at Bayside Special Development school in term 2 for their early education program.

My wish is that Ellie keeps developing and learning new skills as she has done in 2010.. Bring on a healthy and happy 2011

Thank you to all my readers... alot of the time I forget that what I write, people are actually reading. I appreciate all your comments and thoughts on what I post.... Thank you!!