Carmen showed up at my house today at around 12:30. We had agreed that she could come for a weekend visit beginning around 3:00. I asked why she was early. She said that Carrie’s physical therapy appointment with Melissa had been cut short because Melissa went into labor.
I left her alone at the house because I had to go to work. I returned at 5. Kent was home at this time. We grilled burgers for dinner and then just watched TV that evening.
Carmen brought the video with her that I mentioned earlier in this journal. The first scene is a shot of Carrie in her crib. The time is 2:42AM. Carrie is under a blanket with her eyes open. She’s wiggling and playing, as babies do. She moves her legs up into the air a few times and reaches with her right arm from the right side to the left a couple times. Carmen claims that it was a seizure.
Then the video scene changes to the next day with Carrie having a meal. She’s eating some kind of baby food and loves it. She greedily eats each spoonful and opens her mouth for more just like a little baby bird. Her behavior doesn’t look like that of a developmentally delayed child. There are a couple more shots of Carrie in her car seat or her bouncy seat.
Then the scene changes to the waiting room at physical therapy. The wall has letters on it that spell STARS with a bunch of star shapes underneath. No one else is in the room. Then the scene changes. Now Carrie is in the room with a woman that has shoulder length curly hair. She starts out with Carrie on the floor. Carrie grabs her fingers in order to pull herself up. The woman says, “Good job, Carrie. You kept your head in the center.” She does a few more things like that, all the while taking breaks to write stuff down on a set of stapled pages.
The general atmosphere in the room with Carmen and the “physical therapist” is that they haven't met each other before. At the end of their appointment, the woman gives instructions to Carmen about what she can do (exercises and such) with Carrie in order to support her continued development.
I left her alone at the house because I had to go to work. I returned at 5. Kent was home at this time. We grilled burgers for dinner and then just watched TV that evening.
Carmen brought the video with her that I mentioned earlier in this journal. The first scene is a shot of Carrie in her crib. The time is 2:42AM. Carrie is under a blanket with her eyes open. She’s wiggling and playing, as babies do. She moves her legs up into the air a few times and reaches with her right arm from the right side to the left a couple times. Carmen claims that it was a seizure.
Then the video scene changes to the next day with Carrie having a meal. She’s eating some kind of baby food and loves it. She greedily eats each spoonful and opens her mouth for more just like a little baby bird. Her behavior doesn’t look like that of a developmentally delayed child. There are a couple more shots of Carrie in her car seat or her bouncy seat.
Then the scene changes to the waiting room at physical therapy. The wall has letters on it that spell STARS with a bunch of star shapes underneath. No one else is in the room. Then the scene changes. Now Carrie is in the room with a woman that has shoulder length curly hair. She starts out with Carrie on the floor. Carrie grabs her fingers in order to pull herself up. The woman says, “Good job, Carrie. You kept your head in the center.” She does a few more things like that, all the while taking breaks to write stuff down on a set of stapled pages.
The general atmosphere in the room with Carmen and the “physical therapist” is that they haven't met each other before. At the end of their appointment, the woman gives instructions to Carmen about what she can do (exercises and such) with Carrie in order to support her continued development.
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