Megan's healing

Today all my siblings and their grown children and even a grandchild came over to celebrate Thanksgiving. Megan was down for nap before everybody showed up and when she woke up we had a house full, a very loud houseful.  Historically speaking, Megan struggles with walking into a room full of people like that. The last time we had the group over was for her birthday party and she had a hard time with it. Everybody's loud. There's people everywhere, she just has a difficult time adjusting in the past. We brought her downstairs. She let go of my hand, and walked right into the living room of people by herself. She walked right up to one. Uncle said hello, walked over to another one. Ask for a hug, went around the room seeing everybody who was there never once. Was she upset. It was phenomenal. Many many comments from people there about how very different she was today.

We've been working with Megan for a while with a pain chart so she can tell us when she's in pain. And she has a full body picture of herself where she can show us where she hurts. Today was the first time she actually told me she was hurting and then showed me where on her photo she was hurting which was her head. And then she used her talker to also tell me that her head hurt. She didn't want any ibuprofen she just wanted me to know.

A few days ago we tried Megan in the van without her booster seat to she if she would be okay with it now, she wasn't the last time we attempted it. After riding around on just the seat I had her care giver ask her if she wanted to keep riding on the seat or if she wanted her booster seat back and she held up the booster seat so Megan would know what she was talking about. Megan put her hand on the booster seat, pushed it and said "no more." Monday I gave Megan a snack and she finished it and a few minutes later she asked for me. When I came in the room I told her that she wasn't going to get any more snack because she'd be having lunch in 45 minutes and her therapist would be there in about 15 minutes. She kept motioning towards the kitchen and making grunting noises trying to ask for more snack and I just kept telling her no. I started to walk away and she looked at me and said "hungry." Let me tell you she got some more snack.