Checking the Mail!

Luke has had a great few weeks!! We have seen fewer behavior issues, praise God!!! I had his conference at school this week, and he is doing a lot better there behavior wise also. His teacher is impressed with the amount of words he can identify by pointing to the correct word when given a choice of four words. Yeah Luke!!

Yesterday he was showing off at home. He walked (with me helping from behind, but doing very little) all the way to our mailbox and back inside. I am guessing it is at least 100 yards total. I am thinking if he does this every single day, he will get stronger and stronger, and hopefully able to do it with less and less assistance. So, here is how you avid Luke followers can help us out. I would love to fill that mailbox with letters, pictures, postcards, whatever for him when he walks out to check it, to keep him motivated. If you want to help out by mailing him something, send me an email to cmcsmg@aol.com if you do not have our address, and I will get it for you. Thank you so much for helping support Luke on his journey!! We appreciate it more than you will every know.

Too Long..

So sorry for the lack of updates lately, it seems like life is just passing by in the blink of an eye. It seems like just yesterday we were laying on the beach in Coronado, now fall is upon on us, and before we know it Christmas will be here. We have been super busy!! Here are some pics of Luke at our annual blackberry picking event:



We also had to have sort of a surprise IEP meeting for Luke. He had an incident where he was grabbing another student, and has also continued to grab his teacher and aides. By the Grace of God we had met with a new neuro-psychologist just a week prior. He told me he is very well versed in dealing with school behavior issues should the need every come. He attended the IEP meeting via phone conference and had some great suggestions that everyone on Luke's team agreed to try out and implement some changes. Please pray they work and Luke will no longer have the behavior issues at school. Here is Luke's recent school picture. I think it turned out great!


Other than the behavior issues, things have been great. Thanks so much for checking in! I hope to be better about updating in the future!

Scare at School

Yesterday Luke had a bit of a scare at school. I received a call mid-morning from the school nurse telling me Luke was unresponsive. So of course I freak out. I asked her if he was breathing and had a heart beat, she said yes. She said he would just not wake up no matter what they tried. It happened at lunch. His teacher could not get him to respond at all, so she brought him to the nurses office. The nurse was concerned enough that she was going to call 911. The bad part was Tuesday I was at work in Gilbert, so it would take me awhile to get there, the good news was Mike was also there so he could drive, as I was a mess. On the way there I calmed down a bit, and called the school back. By this time the Fire Dept and Paramedics had arrived. The Fireman told me Luke was still unresponsive, and they were going to go ahead and take him to the hospital, where did I want them to transport him to? I start freaking out again, then he says, "Oh wait, we think he is coming around." Sure enough I could then hear him doing his Lukey yell in the background, huge sigh of relief. So they said they would check his vitals and decide what to do when Mike and I got there. I told Mike we were going to get there and Luke was going to be so excited to see all of the fire men there for him. Sure enough we walk into the nurses office to find Luke sitting up, hamming it up for the firemen. They had the stretcher there ready to transport him. After checking his vitals though, they found everything to be normal. All this to say, the only thing we can think it may have been is a seizure. Luke has not had seizures before that we are aware of. However, the doctors told us from the beginning seizures are very common in cases of TBI, especially as kids start to enter puberty. Luke has the same teacher he had last year, so she knows his mannerisms, knows him, and knows when something is not right. We fully trust her. I also know from experience he does not like to be woken up, and will hit and fight you. So for him to be completely unresponsive is not normal at all. After this, he slept for almost two hours straight. Please pray he is not having seizures, and that is was just an isolated event.

Back To School

Luke started back to school this week. Thankfully, he is at the same school and with the same teacher and aides he had last year. The only difference is, this year, he will be going all day every day. So far his first three days, he has had good reports from school. Pray this continues. He has also not had near the behavior problems he had been having at home. Thanks for the prayers and pray this continues. Here are some pics from the first day back (sorry they are so small, not sure why that was:)

Showing us six fingers for sixth grade

With his sisters before school

This week we will be adding Physical Therapy to Luke's schedule, one day before school, and one day after. Please pray this will not be too much for him, as he really needs the PT too, he has been making some great progress here lately.