T-minus 5 Weeks to Manolis
Cathy didn’t mention that there is one other neurologist we would like to go to. He’s in the same office as Maria’s old neurologist. We want to meet with him for a get-acquainted visit to size him up before officially transferring him. The office refuses to let us see him without permission from the old neurologist. We don’t want her to know just yet. We want a chance to see if we like him first before creating problems, but they adamantly refuse. Silly me, I figure that Cathy is an adult and should be allowed to select her daughter’s doctors without getting permission. Yet another symptom of physician arrogance.
Maria continues to battle a cold on and off and was fussy and whiney all day yesterday. However, she had only one major “incident” yesterday and has had only a few all week so the medication may be starting to help.
And, since she doesn’t have enough to think about, Cathy still needs to make a decision on the cochlear implant. Maria’s speech therapist is completely against it, though he didn’t come out and say it that strongly. He feels the “language window” thing is a myth, although I don’t think that I agree with him - and neither does the majority of the speech therapy and audiology community. We honestly just have no idea which way to go on that so it will probably just get ignored for another few months.
Just five more weeks until Manolis comes back! Cathy’s feeling the strain of pseudo-single parenthood and it will be a big help to have him around.