AS we were sitting here getting ready to leave Gavin starts screaming. He is having abdominal pain. This is what happened on Thursday night last week and resulted in him vomiting everywhere. He settled down after a few minutes and tried going potty. I called the doctor to see what they want us to do.. The obvious concern is whether or not he ate something he shouldn't have (PICA related). So we are now trying to make alternative arrangements in the even Gavin needs to be seen as well.....

Emmett is going in for surgery soon and I would really appreciate your prayers.... I'll keep everyone updated. All the posts will probably come at once due to the fact that there is not phone service in the hospital. Everything will auto send when I have signal again...... Thanks everyone... ROb

There is something to be said for kids with Autism getting some time with a Nintendo Wii. I have found that the simplistic nature of the Wii is great for many special needs kids. In Gvain's case it helps him with eye hand coordination and patience. He also feels really good about himself when he does well. The Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort allow him to get "some" of his sensory needs met. It also get's him physically moving instead of sitting on the couch playing regular video games. However, it does come with some frustration and the fine motor skills just aren't there. He also really does have movement issues which interfere with his ability to play. So we only ever do a little bit at a time.…

I want to take a few minutes and welcome my new readers and Thank you all for stopping by. I want to say a special hello to everyone from PPCGeeks.com and xda-developers.com that have stopped by to show support...I have started publishing custom ROMS for Android based smartphones. They can be found on both sites. The amount of support I have found is really incredible. I hope we can continue to all learn from each other.  So if you are sporting a Samsung Epic 4G currently the highest rated phone on the planet stop by and check out my custom ROMS or the other amaxing creations the very talented people at these site have created....

Friday has finally arrived and is almost gone. Gavin was up all night vomiting and home today from school. I think it was something he ate that made him sick. Emmett went to the doctors this morning to be cleared for surgery on Monday. He isn't sick. It was confirmed to be stomach acid backing up him throat. Basically he is throwing up acid in the back of his throat. So Monday is a go but Emmett is absolutely miserable.  He will hve to go most of Monday without eating cause his surgery isn't scheduled till afternoon. I dropped the van off at the shop to get fixed but it ended up just sitting there all day. I'll hae to go pick it up cause we cannot be without a…

We went to have Emmett's speech and language evaluated today. It was not what I had expected. His speech score was 71 the average being 85-115 and his language score was 53 the average being 85-115. These are not good scores.  The recommendation was that he go to the Cleveland clinics early intervention preschool.  She said that the Autism scholarship would knock off $20,000 a year off tuition. That means that tuition is in excess of $20,000 + per year. It's also 1.5 hours away. I have know idea how we could pull that off.... We also learned today that most of what we thought was eye contact is him looking through us. She showed me what she was talking about and she was right. I just shattered right there.…

Emmett just cannot catch a break. Not only is he allergic to milk and egg but also lactose and some other things we haven't identified yet. He goes on the 20th for his endoscopy. I called his gastro today and asked to get him back on his reflux meds. His reflux is so bad he is literally choking on stomach acid. He is screaming all the time. Probably because he is in pain. I get the point of withholding the meds but I don't want him in pain and he is in pain. At the same time I don't want a reason to repeat the enoscopy because the resuls were messed up cause he was on his reflux meds. I explained all of this of this to the nurse and…

I want to say a very humble Thank You to our friend out in Berleley CA. Thank you.. I'm at a loss for words... Thank you and Merry Christmas Lost and Tired