Hi all. LJ's dental surgery is now on April 18th. He has to see the GI surgeon this Wednesday because his tummy looks a little angry at us, and because it's still leaking. In the midst of all the family visits and surgery scheduling, we also finally got LJ's Power Chair yesterday!!! While its a long time before LJ will be cruising in it on his own, he is one proud 3-year-old dude.
He will get the hang of the joystick in no time- a 2 1/2 year has mastered the art of driving one of these bad boys so LJ will definitely be able to within time. He gets a little bit of an evil Knievel streak in him - one of the first times he was in the power chair he was pushing the joy stick backwards and it kept going backward and sort of jossled LJ around in it once backed up to the wall as far as he could go. LJ giggled, seemingly enjoying his joy ride, and continued enthusiastically pushing the joy stick backward ignoring our encouragement to press it forward. We're supposed to be getting a remote control "kill switch" which will undoubtedly come in handy. Oh that, and also having the power set on the lowest possible setting (it can go pretty fast!).
But for now, our walls are serving as bumpers:) I cannot wait to see him be able to drive himself up to the front doors at school one day in the near future.
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