When you look again, it’s 2 years down the line. August 2019. The last time I did a blog post was just before I started working again after my maternity leave, May 2017. Wow.. A lot has happened, to say the least. Let’s start where we left off… Breastfeeding… Well… I made it until 22 months!! Exclusively pumping from when Johnathan was 8 months old (not by choice but a mommy’s got to do what a mommys got to do). We did start formula too… After a struggle… Johnathan refused formula milk and then finally when we found one he liked.. He was allergic to it. Haha. Yay!! The struggle is real. Eventually we got him on Isomil and he loves it still!!!!
Like I said in my previous blog, doing everything we can to make our baby even more super than the superboy he already is.
I’m not going to go through the whole two years I haven’t blogged but to summarize a few things..(not in chronological order) :
1. We are still doing therapies. Physical, occupational, and speech. We started teaching Johnathan some sign language in 2018. Because he wasn’t talking much.. Not even mama or baba or dudu. So we got him to communicate through sign language.. Which by the way… Is amazing. It’s a means to an end and HELPS lessen the frustration he has, as well as the frustration we have.
2. He started saying a couple of words. 2018 May neurologist check up.. Not much words.. Neurologist worried… May 2019…neurologist worried… Well guess what.. We are so excited because he has really started chatting… No sense most of the time.. But wow. His voice is beautiful. He started saying mommy now.. I mean.. That’s the cutest most special thing ever!!! He melts my heart!!
3. OK so then the twitches… Became a full on seizure while at school.. March 2018… Tuesday.. Don’t want to remember the day. The day my heart sank… The day the teacher phones and says come immediately.. I was at work doing an audit, I dropped everything, told everyone I need to leave, somethings wrong. I get into the car. HAZARDS on, phone Reinhardt, tell him to come immediately, he asks me:what’s going on.. I say. I don’t know!! Just get to the school (no ways I’m arriving there alone). Praying to God every second of the way. Just telling him. No no no. Don’t do this. Let him be fine. Let him be fine. Bare in mind… The teacher didnt tell me what was wrong… So in my mind I’m thinking. He must have just fell and bashed his head and needs stitches (please let it be that).. Driving down the road towards the school I see a ambulance with sirens and lights and think to myself.. Omygosh, is my child in there. Finally get hold of the teacher again, she tells me go straight to mediclinic…. I ask.. Is he in the ambulance. Yes is her reply. Ice ice cold my body goes. Rush behind the ambulance. Get to the hospital. I go to the driver of the ambulance. Too petrified to go to the back. Paramedic takes Johnathan out. This little boy is lights out.. A little rag doll. He had a seizure. (he wasn’t sick) We suspect a febrile convulsion… NOT fun!!! Anyway, long story short… A lot of kids handle viruses differently… So if you know your kid has fever.. Rather stay home with them….
4. That experience in my life taught me one thing (yet again) … You are in control of quite little actually and if you want to be in control of everything… Try control your mind to not try to control everything (mind-blowing) or else you will make yourself sick. Also… Thank God for a support structure. My parents were already on holiday and weren’t around. We had our church family helping us with everything and a very very special day mom (teacher) !! She even sent her hubby to the hospital immediately after it happened to be there for us!!! Angels!!!
6. Johnathan started a new school this year. (2019) Hullabaloo!! Beautiful setting. Beautiful school and Johnathan loves it and he eats their food.. Whoop whoop. They really hands on and are doing so much for him to reach his full potential.. He was in the 1-2 class until May 2019 (when he was 2) and then in May he went to the 2 to 3 class..
And well…. It’s now May 2020… Although I wrote this post in August 2019… I didn’t feel that this post brought any light to someone’s soul or being… But then… Maybe it’s bringing light and love to mine.. Maybe as a mom, you sometimes have to think about yourself and how you doing and what you need to do uplift yourself… Maybe this blog will uplift you and inspire you to write about your feelings or experiences… I don’t really know the purpose of this post just yet… But here it is 🙂
