define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":3303,"date":"2011-07-07T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2011-07-07T20:50:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:50:17","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/3303\/","title":{"rendered":"waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.instagram.com\/media\/2011\/07\/06\/3a5f36cd5f3d448997f499a1bc113e4e_7.jpg\" title=\"Waiting\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>we were lucky enough to get a call from our paediatrican today, there was a last minute appointment available so we could come in today instead of waiting until next week, hooray! <\/p>\n<p>the news? EEG, blood, urine, hearing and eye tests &#8211; all clear, no problems which is great! but still, there is still the issue of what is going on, so we&#8217;re booked in for a brain MRI in about 4 weeks time at the hospital, and then about 4 weeks after that is our appointment at the Children&#8217;s Development Unit at Westmead. then 4 weeks after that, we &#8216;should&#8217; have a diagnosis. (again unofficially, he&#8217;s said that it&#8217;s looking like autism on the more severe side of things but unofficial diagnosis&#8217; doesn&#8217;t get us anywhere <em>officially<\/em>). <\/p>\n<p>so give me 3 months, i might not have any hair left from the stress, but we should have something to go with. should. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;should&#8217; is a really tough word to use\/take when it comes to your children&#8217;s development <\/em><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ll be honest and say it&#8217;s been a bit of a struggle to wait the 2 months to get here, but in reality this diagnostics stage may take longer than the next 3 months we have scheduled already. i have to find my patience, and i need to dig deep which is hard when all my thoughts are with getting Jovie (and us) the help she needs. every day i feel like just throwing everything to the side to just concentrate on her, but in the meantime there&#8217;s bills to pay and responsibilities not only as a parent, but as an adult to not give up when the going gets tough. <\/p>\n<p>so we wait. somewhere in between. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we were lucky enough to get a call from our paediatrican today, there was a last minute appointment available so we could come in today instead of waiting until next week, hooray! the news? EEG, blood, urine, hearing and eye tests &#8211; all clear, no problems which is great! but still, there is still the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jovie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}