Catching up

The delay in posting has been because of Megan's sleeping issues and my resulting tiredness.  This is going to be as concise of an update as I can do for the past couple of months.

• Megan had surgery on her trigger finger because it was getting worse instead of better and it was starting to hurt her.  The surgery went extremely well and she did amazing.  Her finger wasn't opening all the way and so we have had 2 follow-up appointments but have been given a month before our next one and it is looking pretty much perfect now.
• Because of her sore throat from surgery she got orange sherbert (we had some) for the first time and loved it.  She also got to eat popsicles which she enjoyed as well.
• Because of her exhaustion from only getting 1-3 hours of sleep a night for 4-5 weeks she stopped walking and talking and doing much of anything.  Thankfully, now that she is back to getting at least 7 hours a night she is back on track.
• She can now stand up in the middle of the floor without assistance and she is walking again like crazy when she wants to.  She is definitely getting on her way to full independent walking.
• Last week she really started to flourish during her speech sessions (again more sleep helps a lot).  She is using sign language and shaking her head yes and no
• The sleeping issues were/are being caused by a severe iron deficiency which is causing her to have restless leg symptoms making her whole body twitch.  Her Ferritin level was 7.2 and needs to be above 50 to get rid of the symptoms.  She is getting 2 doses of iron a day to bring her level up.  In the meantime she is also taking a medicine to help suppress the symptoms, she is still waking up at night so her dosage was just increased two days ago.