Briggs 1st birthday is tomorrow. I have the day off and in the morning I'm taking the kids to get their pictures taken (Elli will be 4 on May 26th). On our way home from that I'm going to bring the kids into work to show them off (everyone has been wanting to see them and of course I love showing them off)! Then we head to Omaha for an afternoon full of appointments (Happy Birthday Briggs!). I am excited to do more testing on his right ear and talk to the doctor about what all happened last week. I was so upset and in shock the day of his surgery and now everything has had time to soak in so I have a lot of questions I need to ask. Then I think we'll go out to dinner or take him to the park so he can swing. He loves to do that!
I wish so much that I would've kept a journal during his 1st year... everything we've been through, everything he's been through, all of my different emotions. I was very sad in the beginning, but I really blame alot of that on my post-partum hormones and the unknown (I don't do well with the unknown). Having absolutely no experience with hearing loss and having no clue which way to turn but wanting to do EVERYTHING we could for him and not knowing what to do was VERY, VERY hard for me. No one wants to hear there is something "wrong" with your baby. But once I realized there was nothing "wrong" with him and we just have to walk a path we've never walked before, I was MUCH better. Whose to say we're all "normal". Everyone has something "wrong" with them. My husband and I accepted his hearing loss pretty much right away. It is what it is and we can't make it go away so we have to deal with it. We realized very early that there is no reason for us to be sad about it and the last thing we ever want to do is make Briggs and Elli and everyone for that matter think there is something "wrong" with him and that he is different than normal hearing people.
Briggs is such a neat little guy and everyone who meets him, falls in love and wants to take him home. He is very laid back and has a great attention span and has been the most cooperative, patient baby throughout all of his appointments. He literally just sits there and watches as they all do their thing. The other day he got a sliver in his hand and I had to take a needle and tweezers and he just sat, very still and watched, and studied everything I was doing. He didn't budge or fuss once while I was digging around trying to get it out. I don't know if he's just used to it or if he has a high pain tolerance. I was just amazed and that is how he always is!
Briggs has touched many lives and will continue. Elli has been amazing throughout all of this and loves her brother SO much! We have an amazing support base and SO many people who love Briggs to pieces. We have truly been blessed with two AMAZING kiddos!!
His brithday party is this Saturday! I'll post about tomorrows appointments and his brithday with pictures on Thursday.
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