This is a pic of Rebecca playing in her water table in our backyard. She thoroughly enjoys splashing in the water table, floating the sailboats in it, scooping up water and pouring it over the water wheel.... It's great fun, and then she gets stripped naked because her clothes are drenched and she's dripping with water.
It's been a busy and hectic week for us. On Tuesday, Ramy's dad aspirated his tube feeds and was taken by ambulance to the Emergency Room. Ramy spent all day trying to be there at the hospital with him and to be there when they transported him, while still covering his courtroom. Thankfully, no aspiration pneumonia and no problems breathing, so he probably didn't actually aspirate. Ramy is supposed to be starting trial today, and if so, then he won't get his 9/80 day off tomorrow. He hasn't had his 9/80 in several weeks, which sucks since I like having him around (but he does get comp days for it, which is nice). I booked Rebecca's and my flights to Tennessee. We'll be there for two week, leaving here on June 27 and coming back on July 12.
Tuesday, I gave the NEPSY to my little girl client and restrained myself from choking her grandmother. Now if only we could get radiology to actually send us her PET scan and EEG data, it would be helpful. So I've been trying to get her neuropsych data scored and analyzed and then use all of the data to figure out what exactly is going on with this little girl's brain. Right now, it looks like her left angular gyrus is basically shot and she really has little frontal lobe function, but I've been working every night to try to get this report done. Regardless, her family needs to come up with a plan to care for her long-term, because she'll never be capable of more than about kindergarten-level functioning. My 16 month old actually has better abilities to follow directions. So, so sad that if she'd had adequate prenatal care and routine screenings, they'd have known before birth what her problems were and would have been prepared to give her supplemental 02 and rush her into immediate surgery. She would be a totally normal little girl. It is cases like this that make me so annoyed when people refuse prenatal testing (with the argument that it is pointless to do testing if you wouldn't terminate the pregnancy - no, idiots, if you know there's a problem then you can be prepared to deal with it!). But off my soapbox.
I had my final exam in my neuropsych assessment class yesterday. Basically we were just given a case history and a set of data and told to write a report on the fly. Afterwards, he gave us the report he had written for the court in the case, and I had localized the damage in the same area he had, so I'm guessing that means I did okay. So I'm officially done with this year of school, even though I've really only taken one class a quarter this last year. I'm glad I overloaded myself with courses my first two years here, when I didn't have a child. I got my end of the year evals from all of my supervisors at my various clinical sites, and I got great reviews. Based on those, I've asked two of those supervisors to write me letters of recommendation for my internship apps. I'm pretty much ready to submit my IRB applications, so I'm really please with that progress. Now I just need to get my comp finished and then get ready to propose. I'm looking to defend my proposal between August 1 and August 15.
I went to the Janie and Jack Season Finale sale. I was there when the doors opened, along with dozens of other crazed fanatics. The store was crammed with extra racks of clothes to hold all the stuff they'd pulled out of the back, and then it was elbow to elbow with people, everyone grabbing stuff. The line to pay was out into the mall. It was utter chaos, but I hit the motherlode! I got a few things for Rebecca for this summer, but I got all kinds of wonderful things for her for fall and winter. Janie and Jack thinks very highly of their stuff, but when the Season Finale hits, the prices are dirt cheap. I got two shopping bags full of stuff for her for $97. Ordinarily, you can spend that much on one outfit. There's one outfit that is so cute, I can't even stand it. Red and gray plaid wool gaucho pants, a blouse with a London scene on it, and a red sweater with a fur collar. It's hilariously cute. I don't know how I'll wait for fall to see her in it.
Rebecca has had a good week. That molar finally broke through, so she has been much less cranky. She and Nanny Rebecca went to the park the last couple of days, and I've gotten pix messages from Nanny Rebecca both days, showing my Rebecca running and playing and having a grand time. My daughter is a fruit addict! She just might eat nothing but fruit if we just kept giving it to her. Night before last, she had eaten pineapple with her dinner. After dinner, I had some applesauce and Ramy was eating blackberries. She kept running to get a bite from one of us and then running to the other to get a bite from the other. Crazy little girl.
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