Jaymin Update

So we are planning a trip for Jaymin to California for a week of lessons with a couple of my teachers at the ABM center this June. This will be his second time being there for lessons. Last year in July he made several great changes during and after his lessons with Marcy! That is when he first started signing with his left hand interchangeably with his right hand. And he also had the least spasticity in his hips that he ever had before his SPML surgery, after that set of lessons.

This time we are seeing Marcy,as before, and also have 4 lessons with another children's ABM practitioner who is a speech/language pathologist and works with many children with speech and feeding difficulties. I am so excited to see what he will learn from both of them! 

With the SPML surgery already done, giving him much more range of motion in his hips and legs and the ability to start learning to move without the spasticity hi-jacking him immediately, he has great potential to learn! And with his recent explosion in eating, I am sooo hopeful that some speech will be following sometime soon! He so badly wants to tell me things sometimes! His voice will be telling me, but his mouth doesn't know how to form the sounds.

We also have to take a very quick trip to TX to follow up with his surgeon,which we will do on our way home from California. I am hopeful that we will have some good news about his hips going back into socket, but it may be a little early to see that yet. 

Unfortunately, along with more lessons and travel, come added expenses. I am still working on paying for his SPML surgery, and will be for a while.... We still owe approximately $7,600. The week of lessons in California in June will cost $2,600, plus travel, lodging, and food, which brings the total over $5,500. I have run out of fundraising ideas, as well as the energy and time it takes to carry them out, but would be grateful for any ideas or help putting an idea into action. Please share Jaymin's story with your friends and acquaintances. There is a Paypal button on this blog page that will direct donations straight to us. I have just set up a savings account in Jaymin's name at a local bank, where donations can be sent. This account will be used exclusively for therapies not covered by insurance, travel expenses for therapy, and special equipment needed that is not covered by insurance.

The Murray Bank
PO Box 1300
Murray KY, 42071
Deposit for Jaymin Toews, Account # 7085966

We are very, very grateful for every donation we have received during the last year! You all have made a huge difference in the life of a precious little boy and lessened the stress and worry of his mother!