Hospital Check Up

Em had her 6 monthly check up yesterday. All I wanted from it was to come away doing something different this time, and thankfully that has happened. She has made no progress at all in the last six months, so finally they are going to refer her to the Child Development Centre and in particular the soiling clinic. It has a psychologist as part of it, and I am leaning more and more towards the idea that it is way more a mental issue for her than a physical one. So I am happy.
She has also started a new medicine today - Movocol. It will flush out her system so we can start again with an empty bowel and hopefully maintain it easier. But it means staying around home and a toilet, so I've taken the day off work to get it all started. She also needs to take Senokot and Cefaclor. I've started her on a probiotic too and she has to increase her liquid intake majorly.
You are all gun-ho at first and can be quite religious about what she needs to do for the first month, then it fizzles out. I'm really keen for her to talk to the psychologist and start helping herself and wanting to fix herself. If I'm out or not around when she needs to take her medicine, she won't. And usually whoever is watching her doesn't remember to make her take it especially if I haven't told them to remind her. I'm tired.
So cross fingers for us that this is finally the path to the end!

Caleb is a real jabbermouth now. His language continues to come along in leaps and bounds. He LOVES playdates and being with his cousins. He and Ammon are right into the Dinosaur Train show by Jim Henson. It's a good show. They watch it every morning and we have recorded it on my-sky so they watch it a couple times through out the day as well. I have decided to put the boys into gymnastics next term and Ammon is real excited about it. Leah and Em will do basketball and Em will do singing. We are going to take a break from swimming although we may still hit aqua gym on a thursday morning.
The rest of the holidays is not planned besides Rose & Jean's birthday party and Brooke's Baptism. Nate does want to take the kids to see Brave sometime so it's lucky some movie discount vouchers came in the mail this week. It's an expensive family activity these days isn't it?