Miss Veronika had a very busy week this week….this week was Veronika’s return to full time school as part of her transition back to school following her surgery way back in April. However Veronika also had 6 medical and therapy appointments booked during the week. Veronika did make it to 2 full days of school and 3 part days around her appointments.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking the last few weeks about Veronika’s therapy sessions as part of her rehab from surgery. I often worry because my girl had missed so much school this year for medical reasons, and now she well enough to go to school she is still missing school to go to her therapy appointments.
Does one unbalance the other….
My thoughts are my girl needs to be at school for her education and social skills, but she needs to go to therapy to be functional at school and our community. I know ‘education’ isn’t just between school hours….we do work at home too just like we do lots of therapy at home as well.
However what I do know is its a great feeling that your doing the right thing when we were about to leave Veronika’s Paed appointment earlier this week, and her Paed looks me in the eye and says ‘Veronika’s going really well, your doing a GREAT job with her’…..and I smiled and said ‘Thanks’….
I never doubted Veronika would walk again, I just never expected it to be so soon after coming out of plaster….my girl truly is amazing.
Yesterday at Veronika’s OT appointment, Veronika and her therapist spent some time learning to write ‘Mum’ and then with her OT’s help Veronika drew a picture of me and wrote Mum….
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