Here we are on day two, I think I like this. I thought about blog content a lot last night, what direction I want this to go, if I should post pictures, etc. If this is just a journal, will it be too boring? I really want other parents to be able to find this, not that I am an expert parent, but I think my experiences could help some other parents in similar situations.
So..... I have decided to give an overview of my life since the time it took a dramatically different path than I anticipated. The day my daughter Melyssa was born was exciting, exhausting and everything I expected. Melyssa's birth was uneventful in medical ways. The only issue at birth was an umbilical hernia, which corrected itself. As Melyssa grew other complications became apparent. She was filled with anxiety and she was constipated constantly. She was late in hitting all of the general milestones. At eight months Melyssa had eye surgery on both eyes for Infantile Esotropia. It was our belief that the Esotropia was the cause of so many other things going on. This was not the case, as it turned out, the Esotropia was a sympton of whatever else was happening with Melyssa.
We continued to push Melyssa's pediatrician, asking about delayed speech, delayed crawling, crying and anxiety issues, the fact that Melyssa wouldn't let her bare feet touch grass, and on and on. The pediatricians kept telling us to give it time, not to push her, and they were unconcerned.
The single hardest thing I have ever done is admit to myself that my child was not "normal". (I use this term only because there is no good word, term, phrase or title. More on that later.)
