A tiny light of hope

For the past 3 months things were not happening as expected.

We so badly wanted to attend the 'WTD' course in June but it got postponed to October. We were given a choice to attend it in Singapore but I did not get my passport at the right time , so we couldn't go to Singapore either.

We tried a lot but we couldn't arrange enough funds to attend the course in Philadelphia. So the chance of attending the course this month at Philadelphia is out of question. This leaves us with no choice except to wait until October to attend the course in India; and till this date we are not sure whether the course is happening this time at least.

Anyone who has read the WTD book will know that 0-36 months is the most important period for brain development and delaying therapy is bad for the brain injured child. Time is precious and must be used as effectively as possible in order to stimulate the brain of the kid.

Sai Kishore is still functional in the stage of crawling( Stage 2) & prehensile grasp( Stage 3). It seems like he is stuck and not able to complete those stages. He has been there for the past 3 months and we strongly feel that ' patterning' is the key to unlock the skill of crawling. Patterning is like a surgery , says Glenn Doman, and that it must not be given without proper training, which means we have to wait.

I had a few health issues due to which I had to pause his Flash card program. SK was not gaining weight at the expected rate in spite of feeding him a diverse range of healthy foods. He got sick for the first time in his life and he was totally down for a few days.

We wanted to teach him swimming in order to improve his gross motor skills as well as to help him with his muscle tone. After a long search we found that there are no infant swimming classes in our city. When we approached a few swimming camps whether they would accept our child, they refused. We were asked to come when SK turns 3 years old.

There was a period where he was seizure free , but the last three months he had more than 10 such occasions and he had around 3 brief episodes on his birthday.

We came to know that Frankincense will help him with his seizures and improve the activity of his brain. So we searched all over the city to get this essential oil and there was not even a single shop that had this oil.

We wanted to meet a pediatric neurologist but couldn't meet one due to financial constraints. Every single month we strive hard to save some money for the appointment and we hope we will be able to meet the doctor by this month.

Nothing was happening. Whatever we tried , it did not work.

Suddenly, things have started to change. Good things are coming and I can see a tiny light of hope. All the efforts that we had put in the past 3 months are starting to show results. People are coming forward to help and support us. It is not possible to mention everyone's name in a single post so we are planning to dedicate a CREDITS tab in the tab section of the blog to thank every single person for whatever help they have done.

We have started to give him intense therapy again. We strongly believe that we would see great improvements and we will definitely update the results soon.