After the new Pediatrician said there where a lot of "red flags" she said that she would be right back. Little did I know that she went to speak with another doctor who has first hand experience with Autism. When I say that he has first hand experience with Autism I do not mean that he just sees many Autistic children at his practice, his son has Autism. (I will be referring to this pediatrician as Dr. A). She came back in to our room with Dr. A, he actually took time out of his day to come over and say that everything was going to be okay and that they would start the process of getting KB tested and in therapy. When he said that they were going to get the process started he meant it. They took action! By that afternoon one of the nurses called me with the names, phone numbers, dates and times of where we needed to go start getting Katie-Beth the help she needed. KB was referred to four different places: 1. Pediatric Ophthalmologist 2. Hearing test 3. Speech therapist evaluation 4. Testing. The eye exam, hearing test, and speech evaluation appointment were within the first week after the appointment with the pediatrician. When I said they moved fast I was not kidding. The eye examine and hearing testes where normal, but the speech evaluation was not. KB does not have a difficult time talking, but rather, has a difficult time expressing what she needs or wants and resorts to screaming instead. Testing was the one appointment that was the hardest to get into. Our first appointment was originally scheduled for November 5, at 10:30am. I became discouraged, I mean I just found out the she might have Autism and we can not find out for another month? The good thing is that it did not take us until this week to have her tested, I will continue with Part 2 of, " The first month of our Autism Journey," tomorrow!
Living in His grace,
Dawn
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