Hi and thanks for breakfast. I left roast beef on homemade bread sandwiches out for lunch, with some Toll House Cookies for dessert. Enjoy around the pool if you'd like!
Originally posted by cheeringmom
[color=66FF00]iluvtink[/color] I know all about Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Lauren has tactile too. The "out of sync child has fun" is also a great book! Sorry about the "she'll grow out of it" comment I made. I didn't realize it was medical. Forgive me???
Cheeringmom, honey, you don't need to apologize at all! Anyone who has lived with this stuff gets a pretty tough skin (except the kid that has it!!!). It never occurred to me that you said anything that needed forgiving! I diagnosed Katie before anyone else did, from that "child that couldn't be hugged" article in Parents mag. .. my Katie hates to be kissed! Wonder how that will play out as she gets older???? Might be okay 'til she's 30, according to my DH.
[color=6600FF]s&k'smom[/color] - I've used the Yahoo Groups SI a lot in the earlier rookie years of understanding Katie. We are in a good spot now... the psych. thinks she's probably a bit OCD, too, and she's on meds for the first time. We can see a marked difference in her anxiety level and ability to focus and to not fly off the handle if anything is "different" in her world... the best part is that she is so much happier with herself. If I could just get her to taste a hamburger!!!
The way I see it,
[color=FF66CC]llebrekniT[/color], is that if your kids are functioning and happy, then maybe it's mild enough that you don't need to fix it! I read probably in that Out of Sync Child book that it is estimated that 10% of the population has some form of sensory integration issues, some are milder than others. The only time I

is when someone has the nerve to say, "well if it were my child, I wouldn't let her get by with that pickiness." I finally started responding, "that 's why God didn't see fit for you to have her!"
Lewski709 - you are my soul sister, I guess! Was your ex named "Danny W" by any chance? Of course either my ex or yours could have been using an alias at the time we knew them. They probably aren't the same guy, but I bet they share a rotten chromosome from somewhere back in the gene pool! We should write a book someday ... my ex called me one night when DS was only a year and a half and we lived 3 hours from my parents, and he said, "I've got to have $70,000 tomorrow night, or I'm going to be a dead and you might be, too!" It was a drug deal gone sour and that night when he finally got home, two Sicilian guys spent the night on the sofas in our living room so no one would sneak out!!! Can you imagine what the screenplay would be if we just combined our stories?? I don't think my ex got anyone pregnant while we were married, but after we separated, the most recent of his girlfriends while we were married called me and we had a long, long talk. She was very young, and I actually felt sorry for her being involved with him. Just like you, though, as much of a nightmare my life was for those 3 years, I wouldn't change a thing. I wouldn't have my DS24 and I wouldn't have been in the place and time and right mindframe to meet my wonderful Real DH. We could name our book, "To H**L and Back" or something like that!
ohanafamily, thanks for the computer help.

Right after I e-mailed you, I did a virus scan, which came up with a few spyware type things, but nothing else. I checked my McAfee configurations and found I wasn't automatically scanning for viruses on every file that the computer used ... it was just set to "program files," I think. That's been changed. This a.m., the only thing I can see that is wrong is that my Internet Explorer won't open up at all, so I've made Netscape my default browser. My guess is that I need to uninstall Internet Explorer, since it appears to be corrupt. What do you think?
Well, I have to go to the #$! job and pay bills. He didn't advertise last week in the local paper to replace me, so I think I'm going to have to be decisive and give him a deadline. I hate being pushy like that.
I've gotta go take the first 4 College of Disney Knowledge tests. I filled the parts out about
Disneyland and Walt Disney World and the Cruise Line before doing the coursework, just to see how much I already knew. I hardly missed any. I am so ready to start this new venture!!! That's what keeps me sane at the #$!$ job!
Have a good day everyone. I'll check in later.
[color=66FF00]ILT[/color]