We started our day in Appleton at the Children's clinic to see Dr. Wargowski. He is a geneticist who specializes in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. I took Kaitlyn there to see where she was on the spectrum and how it would affect her long term. Her primary doctor was convinced that she was somewhere on the spectrum but I held out hope that it was just ADHD. Dr. Wargowski diagnosed her with partial fetal alcohol syndrome. Well there went my hope. He also looked at Zach (my nephew who is being raised by my aunt) and said that his measurements were normal and that we should take the wait and see approach. Then he looked at Aiden. Aiden's facial measurements were with in normal range but Dr. Wargowski noticed that his ears showed the classic signs of FAS. So he wants me to keep a close eye on development. Well that was bad enough but it wasn't the end.
Next we had to take Aiden to his primary doctor because birth to 3 noticed that he wasn't tracking like he should and were worried about the fact that he didn't look at people's faces, and they wanted him to get checked out. So they were concerned that it was either vision problems or sensory related. Well the doc had the same concerns and brought up autism but said that he was too young to be diagnosed. She also referred him out to a pediatric eye specialist to rule out vision problems. In one day I thought that was enough to try to take in and comprehend but that wasn't the last of things to come.
Alex was with his grandma for the day since I had to take the other two to their appointments. She had offered to take him to speech therapy so I wouldn't have to rush. She is great like that and I am thankful to have her in our lives. Well she brought Alex home after therapy with a note from the speech therapist. He is really concerned about Alex's stuttering and has noticed that it got alot worse since last week. I brought it up last week and he said just to calm him down when he starts stuttering and that he is probably just trying to talk too fast. But now this week it is a really big concern because it is getting worse.
Now seriously this is way to much bad news for one day. I am going on like 3 hours of sleep and just can't comprehend all that has happened today.
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