Nadiah had another appointment with Uncle Alex again today. We left for Penang around 11.30-ish am. Appointment was at 1.30pm. Usually it takes us one and a half hours to get to Loh Guan Lye Hospital, door to door. The extra half hour is for unexpected traffic jam or such.
What we didn't remember was that it's the school holidays and everyone wants to go to Penang. First there was the long queue at the ticket booth to get on the bridge. Then there was another long queue along Greenlane. We finally arrived 20 minutes later that the appointed time.
But of course, the children's clinic was close by that time so I had to go in through the main entrance which is on the other side of the building. So there was me dragging Nadiah all along the corridor to get to Alex's room and at the last minute remembered that Nadiah had to go and do her "small business". Quickly turn around and rushed her to the loo. With that done, we entered Alex's room.
Alex was his usual cheerie self. He took out some jigsaw puzzles for Nadiah. She loves puzzles. At home that morning she had already gone through several rounds of puzzles on the computer. Now there was more for her to do. First Alex had her do puzzles that was coordinated around colours. There was a middle piece that shows a specific colour eg. orange. Around it, that has to be assembled are pictures of orange stuff like orange fruit and a carrot. Her first try was a bit of a struggle. She kept trying to get us to give her a hand but we refused to. Instead we cheered her on and in the end she she managed to put all the five pieces together. And once she had the concept, all the other colours was a breeze to her.
After that there was more puzzles to do. . Then Alex tried to get her to say out numbers but she refused to do so. Was more interested in all the little figurines that was neatly laid out in the cabinet next to her.
Sometimes it's so hard to get her to concentrate on something because she refuses to respond to our voices. Unlike normal children, Nadiah looks away when we call her. Although she gets better each day, there are still times when I call her name a few times and she would just ignore me even though she is just standing right there in front of me. In the end it would see me screaming her name for a response. I hate it when that happens but it is so frustrating sometimes; especially when we thought that she had progressed so much. I know that Nadiah is only mildly autistic and I should be very thankful that she has very good chances of getting through life as a normal person, but still what mother does not bleed inside to know that her only child may have difficulties surviving in this world independently.
But I digress...
So anyway, even though Nadiah was refusing to cooperate, Alex was very happy with her overall progress. Gave us more stuff to do with Nadiah till the next appointment which will be in February. Since Nadiah is clever enough to use the pc on her own, we are to get some educational games software for her and we have to get her to practice her colouring.
Till the next time we see Alex again. In the mean time, the body brushing and the tongue brushing must still go on....
What we didn't remember was that it's the school holidays and everyone wants to go to Penang. First there was the long queue at the ticket booth to get on the bridge. Then there was another long queue along Greenlane. We finally arrived 20 minutes later that the appointed time.
But of course, the children's clinic was close by that time so I had to go in through the main entrance which is on the other side of the building. So there was me dragging Nadiah all along the corridor to get to Alex's room and at the last minute remembered that Nadiah had to go and do her "small business". Quickly turn around and rushed her to the loo. With that done, we entered Alex's room.
Alex was his usual cheerie self. He took out some jigsaw puzzles for Nadiah. She loves puzzles. At home that morning she had already gone through several rounds of puzzles on the computer. Now there was more for her to do. First Alex had her do puzzles that was coordinated around colours. There was a middle piece that shows a specific colour eg. orange. Around it, that has to be assembled are pictures of orange stuff like orange fruit and a carrot. Her first try was a bit of a struggle. She kept trying to get us to give her a hand but we refused to. Instead we cheered her on and in the end she she managed to put all the five pieces together. And once she had the concept, all the other colours was a breeze to her.
After that there was more puzzles to do. . Then Alex tried to get her to say out numbers but she refused to do so. Was more interested in all the little figurines that was neatly laid out in the cabinet next to her.
Sometimes it's so hard to get her to concentrate on something because she refuses to respond to our voices. Unlike normal children, Nadiah looks away when we call her. Although she gets better each day, there are still times when I call her name a few times and she would just ignore me even though she is just standing right there in front of me. In the end it would see me screaming her name for a response. I hate it when that happens but it is so frustrating sometimes; especially when we thought that she had progressed so much. I know that Nadiah is only mildly autistic and I should be very thankful that she has very good chances of getting through life as a normal person, but still what mother does not bleed inside to know that her only child may have difficulties surviving in this world independently.
But I digress...
So anyway, even though Nadiah was refusing to cooperate, Alex was very happy with her overall progress. Gave us more stuff to do with Nadiah till the next appointment which will be in February. Since Nadiah is clever enough to use the pc on her own, we are to get some educational games software for her and we have to get her to practice her colouring.
Till the next time we see Alex again. In the mean time, the body brushing and the tongue brushing must still go on....
5 comments:
Hey girl, how was the bowling tournament? Time is running so fast and its Sunday already!!! Sob!!!
Silly me. The above comment was meant to another girl .... Anyway, aku tak tau lah when can I see you again ... selalu saja ada benda kacau in between ... cant wait to see your other blog tho. hugs
Hmph!! Heran jugak mula2 baca... ingat bowling hapa!!
Anyway, hope we can meet up... someday, somewhere...
just woder did Nadiah took the brush and do it herself? because that's what Adriana do, she took the brush form us and try to do it herself but instead of brushing her mouth she gigit it!!
Nadiah kalau her own normal toothbrush mmg she will gigit and makan the toothpaste. I always have to rampas balik the brush from her. But now she will brush her teeth properly. I boh mirror lower down so dia boleh see her own reflection.
Brush yg for the massage tu is the baby brush yg kita sarung hujung jari tu. That one I will do it for her. Puas asyik kena gigit jari I!!
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