Oscar will be 15 months old on Sunday. He had his palate repair on the 8th July and has recovered really well. It was a slow recovery, but he got there in the end and is going great guns now. He really seemed to enjoy having his palate intact and started making purposeful, la, la la's almost straight away.
We saw his surgeon last week, which was 8 weeks since surgery and he is happy with the results and doesn't want to see him for another 12 months. Of course we were delighted with that news as we half expected there to be another surgery as there are a couple of residual holes in the palate. But one is very small and will hopefully close on it's own and the other will stay there until his bone-graft when he's 8 or so.
He also had appointments with Audiology and his ENT Specialist and they have decided that he'll require grommets (small drains to clear the fluid out of his ears). This is going to happen sometime in the next few weeks, we're just waiting for a date. This is a 15 minute procedure, so just a day stay in Starship, but of course they have to put him under, so I'm not super thrilled!
His Speech Language Therapist is very excited about his progress now that he has recovered from surgery. He is eating really well and chatting away at daycare and home. He is pulling himself up on everything and getting ready to walk - but still a wee ways away from actually doing it!
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| Gramps gave me my first chocolate biscuit! |
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| Coffee Group 1st Birthday outing at Butterfly Creek - August 2011 |
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| Oscar loving his vegetables! |
Hope you're all well and enjoying the RWC.
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