Pray for Meredith

Archive for November 2009

While we are still waiting on the appeal for more therapies from our insurance provider, we’ve found another more affordable therapy place to take Meredith to.  She’s now getting Speech, OT and PT once a week at On the Move Pediatrics, and they are wonderful there!  It’s still pricey, but much better than what we were paying at Cardinal Hill. 

This week Meredith had some testing done with the speech therapist there.   It showed some areas where Meredith is below average for her age group and some areas that she is very close to average on — a significant improvement from her scores done in late September!  This week Meredith aced a spelling class at school and even got the bonus word right — “diagram”!  She’s very busy with a lot of interventions — therapies, tutoring, Read-to-Succeed program, and school part-time.   And once we finish the public school evaluations we will be adding in therapies (Free of charge thanks to our taxes!)  from them, but that’s been in the works since August and still isn’t complete.  Still, all of these interventions seem to be working together in her recovery process.  

For Thanksgiving we will go to Clarksdale, our first trip home since last Thanksgiving.  And what a Thanksgiving it will be!  “I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; in the company of the upright, in the congregation.” ~Psalm 111:1


Meredith’s story

Eight year old Meredith has been in the hospital since April 27th, first in a medically induced coma and now for continued occupational and physical therapy. The doctors were baffled for over 3 weeks and didn't know what had caused her seizures and illness.

On May 13, Meredith was diagnosed with Acute Necrotyzing Encephalopathy after being transferred to Cincinnati Children's Hospital the day before.

On June 1, after slowly being eased off her anti-seizure meds over the course of many days, Meredith started rehab. The doctors estimate that she may be released in mid-July.

Please pray that Meredith continues to improve and respond with her therapies and pray for continued strength for Meredith's parents, sister and extended family.



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