Setbacks

It always seems to happen. We go to Philly, get our report and our new program, come home, work hard, and for the first two months things go really well. Then we have our setback. This time it is Noah's hip. We seemed to be making some progress with it over the first couple of months, but we started noticing some problems a few weeks ago. Now Noah has times every day when he can hardly move it and is in so much pain he is crying (Noah rarely cries because of pain). We have to work really hard to get him to relax so that we can get him comfortable again. It is a completely helpless feeling -- I almost feel angry at having a body that works well. It certainly makes my measly aches and pains seem negligible.

I am emailing our army of folks at Philly to see what we need to do. I'll post some results when I get them.

UPDATE: After three straight nights of Noah being in so much pain that it took us an extra twenty minutes to get him comfortable enough to lay down, he did not show any sign of pain tonight. Of course I concentrated all his program on breathing treatments and his hip protocol. It meant a lot of sitting still today -- which bored Eli terribly, but it seemed to help.