We're off to Denver...again...

Hi everyone!!

Another update as to what is going on in the Walsh household. We will be leaving tomorrow to go to Denver for Landon's next procedure. His procedure is on Wednesday morning, so keep us in your thoughts that day. We're leaving early to give us more time for travel and we are also going to try and take Landon to the aquarium while we are there. That should be fun. One day we will have to go on vacation to Denver so we don't have so many negative connotations associated with it. :)

We have had many doctors appointments over the past few weeks and I apologize for not getting on here with an update. We went to go see Landon's eye doctor to see how his vision was coming along in his left eye. He said that Landon still favored his right eye, so he suggested that we start patching his right eye so the left one could work a little harder. Fun! But the place where we get Landon's glasses had these cute little covers to go over one of the lenses so we didn't have to tape a patch to his face. I got a cute one that had a picture of a pirate. :) I wasn't looking forward to putting tape on his face for the obvious reason that he would just rip it off, and that Landon's skin is already so sensitive I didn't want it to break out from the tape. We tried putting his glasses on with the cover and he doesn't like it, but we are trying to make a deal with him that he has to wear his glasses while he watchs tv...hopefully the tv will keep him occupied enough that he'll forget about his glasses. Since he only has to wear the patch 2 hours everyday, we're hoping that a movie a day will help ease him into it.

We also went to go see Landon's ENT doctor. He's the one following Landon's progress with the trach. We went to go for a follow-up from Landon's last procedure, and he told us that he was hoping to see more progression from these procedures. He wants to put Landon under after he's healed from the next procedure (maybe in July) and do another bronchoscopy to check out how Landon's airway, throat and tongue look. I'm crossing my fingers that he finds good news cause he said that if there wasn't much change then we didn't need to go to Denver anymore. Which scares me. We'll have to move on to the next and final type of treatment before the last option of cutting into his tongue. Keep your fingers crossed that all of this is helping and hasn't been a waste of time. That would be so aggrivating!!!

Anyways, on a happier note, Landon is growing like a weed and has become a bit of a Chatty Cathy. He's not saying anything in particular, just a lot of sounds, but we have been working hard to get him to say words. He's getting there. Landon's teacher brought out the lady to help us with Landon's communication. She carried a rolly backpack full of things to try with him. He wasn't quite understanding and using the picture exchange that we tried with him, but he caught on to using the pictures when they were placed on a button that said the word. He would push the button for the object he wanted and then we would give it to him. We're just going to condition him to use the buttons when he wants something. Eventually, he'll be able to make sentences with them.

Well, I'll keep everyone updated about Landon when we get back. Please keep us in your thoughts...especially Landon.

As promised, I included some pictures from Landon's first experience in the bean box. He had a lot of fun dumping the beans on himself...