It’s a beautiful day today, I took few pictures when picking William up from Mitchell school. As usual I brought sausage and milk for him; cleaned his face while he’s eating. After he’s done eating I took him to the Children World Preschool.
By the time William is done eating some slices of sausage, everyone including the buses are gone. It’s time to head to the day care.
11:30 PM, William’s eyes were still wide open. I was so tired so I felt asleep. Few minutes later he woke me up by sitting right next to me and looking at my face. I opened my eyes and oh my god, lotion was all over his face & hands. He looked like he was about to cry because lotion got into his eyes. I used a wet towel to clean his face, then he laughed! Then I found out his pants was soaked in lotion as well as his shirt! So we changed his clothes. I guess he was bored so he played with the lotion bottle.
The night was not over! we let him watched the Mickey video on YouTube; he put the iPad leaned against the wall and it felt under the bed; we had to move the bed to get the iPad for him.
William really has trouble sleeping at night, he would not sleep until really late in the night. Maybe because he takes too much nap in the afternoon? Yesterday he woke up around 5:30 PM after his afternoon nap.
Yesterday William ate 3 chicken nuggets I bought from Mc.Donald after his nap. I’m so happy because this is the first time ever that he volunteered to eat chicken nuggets. We’ve tried a few times before but he refused or he only had 1 bite then stopped.
Love my boy, he’s learning!
Today I took William to see the psychologists at the Regional Center of OC in Tustin after his class at Mitchell. The appointment was at 2 P.M, and it took about 1 hour. Dr. Kyle D. Pontius ( PhD, RCOC Psychologist) came with a lady named Iris Richard, (MD, RCOC Physician) , they brought us to a big room with a few toys. William at first didn’t want to stay; he pulled my hand and dragged me to the door. I led him back to the toys; then he started to play with the ball, climbed up the slide and touched other toys. At first they just observed him and then asked me lots of questions about his behavior.
Does he respond to his name? When did he started to crawl, walk and say first word? What words does he know? Does he know if I’m upset? Does he follow simple commands? Does he like to look at the ceiling fan? does he ever get into a fight with other children? how does he eat? Does he feel hurt when he falls? Does he like everything to be neat? The result of the hearing test? how does he like when getting a hair cut? etc.
No, William is now 3 years old but he doesn’t respond to his name at all. Doesn’t matter who calls his name, he doesn’t show any sign of hearing it: doesn’t turn his head or look up or look at the direction where the voice is coming from; but he does respond to music and sounds from the TV or videos. He’d spin in a circle so many times when he hears the music that he likes. He can only say Papa or Mama or count to 3. That’s about it. Lately he tries to repeat some of the sounds he hears from those Mickey mouse videos from YouTube. He says it in a very soft voice. He likes to close things; if he sees the oven knob covers are open, he’d close them. If I close the lid of the Aquaphor bottle not too tight, he’d try to close it right. He doesn’t seem to know how to use a toy; he has a Ride-on bike but he always turns it over and spins the wheels only. Some times he does respond to some simple commands like Stop or Eat or Drink. He does understand some of the basic activities like Shower, Brush Teeth. When I say these words he’d run to the bathroom. When he wants something but we’d not give it to him, he’d cry, kick his legs and throw himself out on the floor; if we don’t catch him, he’d hit his head on the floor or the wall. Haircut? last time we tried was 2 months ago. We put him on the high chair; he cried, kicked his legs and shook his head from left to right until we gave up and let him go. The result is terrible!
Every time we go out to the mall or park, he’d just run around so fast that we have a hard time to keep up with him. Times like this saying “Stop” doesn’t mean anything to him. He’d run to and touch the things that he sees & likes. He especially like the escalator and elevator. He’d ride them so many time without being bored. We’d be tired of the repetitiveness but he would not.
Toward the end of the session, Dr. Kyle said “He has Autism, classic case of Autism”. As soon as I heard that I burst into tears. He asked “Didn’t that you already know?”. “I was hoping to hear differently!” – I responded in tears.
I guess it’s time to stop being in denial!
It was sprinkling but not too cold. Despite the rainy weather there was still lots of people going to the temple. It’s the year of the rooster so there was a big rooster inside the temple.
People were busy taking pictures with the nice decorations at the temple while William only liked to take the … elevator! He went up and down, up and down and refused to leave. He’d cry and kick his legs when we try to take him away from the elevator. Tim was too tired watching him. By noon we decided to leave because it was impossible to enjoy the sight where the only place he wanted to be is to ride the elevator :).
It’s raining so hard and windy, hopefully when Tim picks William up today at the school he won’t get wet and cold.
The wind knocked down our bamboo tree.
Yesterday afternoon when he came home from Children World preschool, he was not warm but he coughed more and felt nausea more. So I gave him some DimeTapp. Later at night I checked again, no fever, great!
When I picked him up from Mitchell school today, his temp felt normal but he continued to cough. His daily report said he only had chocolate milk; no wonder when I gave him a sausage, he ate it (he refused to eat the sausage the last 2 days).
It’s a very windy and rainy day today, he felt asleep on the way to the Children World preschool; I wish I could take him home so that he can sleep on his comfortable bed but unfortunately I have to get back to work.
last night, 11 PM, William still could not sleep. I went to the kitchen to refill his milk and he followed me. His forehead was warm to the touch so I measured his temp: 100.4; not bad but I was afraid that his temp would increase more while we are sleeping so I gave him Children Tylenol. I took him back to bed shortly after that; he kept playing with his toys until I turned off the light.
5 AM, Tim asked if should he stay home again today; I touched William’s body and it was not warm any more so Tim went to work.
8 AM, I tried to dress William to take him to school, he let me put on his jacket but he looked sleepy. He didn’t eat much last night so I gave him some milk, he only drank half of it and showed signs of nausea.
When I dropped him off at his classroom, he walked around looking fine; all my worries were gone.
Hopefully fever is gone!
Last night around 10 PM his temp increased again to 101.3 F (he didn’t eat much during dinner) so we gave him 5 ml Children Tylenol. During the night I checked his forehead several times, and his temp had decreased to warm only. We decided no school for him today so Tim called in sick to stay home watching him. He has been having fever on/off for 2 days already.
He plays and laughs as normal so hopefully this is nothing serious.
William woke up around 6:30 AM and could not go back to sleep. His whole body felt warm; and he refused to drink milk. He really loves milk so if he refuses to have it then something must be wrong. I measured his temperature and it was 101.7. He was just lying there with his eyes open and his hands scratching here and there on his legs. His breathing was also faster than normal.
Gave him 5 ml of Children Tylenol; half hour later his temperature decreased. Touching his forehead, body, hands and legs were not hot anymore. I also let him use the Albuterol machine for some cool steam to help with his breathing. Soon later I gave him the milk and this time he took it and finished the bottle really quick. I also applied some Aquaphor on the areas that he felt itchy.
7:30 AM, while watching him watching the videos on iPad I was debating if I should call in sick and let him stay home. His temp seemed to be back to normal (I should have taken another measure to be sure!) so I decided to let him go to school; plus it should be a fun day today with everyone is giving out Valentines gifts.
I just hope that he’s OK at school today.
Last night I prepared some of the little gifts for William’s friends at Mitchell school; I tried to hold William’s hand to help him write down his initial but he refused and ran away. Hopefully next year he will do better :).