More appointments for Isaac, and I need a distraction!

The evaluator for Tn early intervention services came by this morning, and we should get this ball rolling pretty soon. We still have the psychologist appt for his "official" diagnosis (one or more) on Monday. In a few days another lady from TEIS will call to meet for his whatever they called it plan, and therapy, or the therapies,  should start soon after that. I'm so tired of...what are those things..acronyms. Like, TEIS stands for something, ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Really...I'm stuck in this place where everything and every sentence has one or more of these in it and I have to try to figure out what they mean. I'll probably know all of them in a few months, but right now trying to read stuff on the Autism mom's group fb page is like half acronyms. That I don't know.
I'm trying really hard to get my mind off of all of these appointments, and I'm also trying to sell stuff like crazy to afford some of these appointments. I'm selling stuff all over fb resale sites. I started a gofundme page for Isaac, for anyone who's feeling sympathetic and wants to help out! Please! The amount that we are trying to raise is what his speech therapy alone is going to cost this year. I put on there that it was for all 3, but I just added up his twice a week visit copays and that's the number I got. Sheesh!! So...if you feel like you can...click the link and help us out!! What I didn't realize is that gofundme will not make your profile/page truly public where wonderful strangers can donate...until you get $100 in donations yourself. So please share!
As spring is fastly approaching, I need something for me to do to earn money. I can do boutique hairbows and diaper cakes with ease, also homemade bath salts and sugar scrubs ... so I was thinking about maybe getting up a big stockpile of those and doing spring, summer, and fall craft shows. Most of these are on weekends anyway when D is off work and I can drag the Jessica with me to help out. Thoughts? On most of the big ones, little ones, and even consignment sales I have noticed that they have vendors who do bows, but since the diaper cakes are so much fun for me I thought about those. Good idea, bad idea? I do not think I can do both in one booth, but I'm not sure about that either. Or not risk it at all? I really really really need advice on this one. I'm on the fence.
Still working on that super sparkly list for this year though, and just wondering if crafts/trade shows should be on it. Y'all help me out with deciding!!
Love and always God Bless! www.gofundme.com/5ywwdw

Isaac and Autism

Going into Isaac's 2 year old checkup this morning, I had my list (short ones) of things to ask his dr. Developmental ones. Most of those who are close to us know most of these things, such as my baby is 2 and doesn't talk. At all. Yes, he makes sounds. But no words. None. No momma, daddy, car, dog, cat, ball, go, sip, drink, bye. Not one word. He should be able to almost string two short words together and make a small sentence by this point. Nope. After voicing our concerns, I was asked to take a small survey on a piece of paper. No biggie. Took 3 minutes. 20 questions about my Isaac. So gave it back, dr came back and had over half circled. It was an autism question screening. Dr said that the circled answers didn't meet what should normally be the other answer. Ok. Next step is phone calls. I will be awaiting phone calls this week and maybe the next. First step up...speech therapy. This is a go. First call will be coming to set up speech therapy for Isaac. Next up, phone call to get appt with Dr Levine (sp?) who is an autism specialist for Memphis Children's Clinic. Dr. Levine will be the one to tell us WHERE Isaac is on the autism spectrum. That's what I was told by his regular dr. Not if he is on it, but where. After the assessment by Dr Levine, it was advised to me from his regular dr to get on the "extremely long" waiting list (dr's words not mine) for the Boling center downtown. Regular dr said this Dr. Levine might be able to pull a string or two to get him in line sooner rather than later, but who knows on that. I don't even know what it does.

As I try to process everything, all I can think of is...I see alot of appointments in our future. Neither thinking this in a good way or bad. Just more like..I need to be prepared for doctor/therapy appointment onslaught.

I told Dennis, sent a few texts out to family about it this morning after I got home, and am still just kind of overwhelmed with what I think I should be looking up. That prepared thing again. I have no clue what is in store for my baby with speech therapy. Or any other therapy he might get/have. I'm also dealing with D, and him not wanting to talk about it at all. Didn't even want to call his mom and tell her. So I sent her a text. He says he's not in denial, just processing it I guess but it doesn't help me that he's shut up completely. I'll leave him alone for now though. Everyone processes differently ;)

So, this afternoon we are going to go shopping (Halloween clearance and all!) and just hang out, not doing anything too special. Maybe after the little ones go to bed, I'll look some stuff up, just trying to get my head around it and what we may or may not be in store for. Not one to totally freak out, but I'm also not about to take his pacifier away like originally planned either. It's breaking, last one too, and we were about to throw it away and say no more....well...now....think we'll buy another set until I know more.

Hi ho, Hi ho, it's off to Target we go! (And Michael's...did I mention Halloween clearance?! I did, ok well...just saying!)