Happy New Year!

Felipe is doing much better!  We had a couple of days of monitoring his fever, water intake and food, but fortunately he is back to normal.  No fever for the last 24 hours :)  he will have to continue on antibiotics, however, at least no more fever!  He had a UTI, we have called and asked the urologist, if he needed to go in sooner to remove the stent given the UTI.  As of now, we don't have an answer.  But overall, Felipe seems to be in his usual playful spirit.

12/30 we had our first session with EI.  It was VIGOROUS!!! Goodness, I left tired and Felipe was pooped! He just passed out for a 2 hour nap afterwards.  Abuelita Luz Elsa suggested video taping the stretches and other techniques, so in future posts I'll put that up.  The Early intervention physical therapist was very good, knowledgeable and caring with Felipe.  His goals are to get him to strengthen his leg muscles through repetitive motion of sitting and standing.  Using his braces, he will work on strengthening his knees and hips.  She asked me to find a pair of pants and sew the legs together so that at night Felipe can pull his hips and legs closer together.  I did it last night, I think I picked the wrong type of pants, it did nothing to improve his hip positing.  I think I need more of a spandex type material.  So that's my next assignment, find him pants to sew the legs together that will pull his hips together.  I also got some info from him his Titi Ivi regarding a swimming lessons close by, that I need to investigate.  Swimming would help him gain muscles, since he is loosing the muscle tone he used to have.  Its  hard to think of swimming when its so cold out!!!!

Have a blessed New Year!

I have 4 teeth in total now!! bring on the steak :)