once again, the internet saves the day

You know when your kid is doing something that worries you (like coughing like a smoker) or not doing something (like walking) and you finally decide to go to the pediatrician, and lo and behold, the cough disappears or she takes her first steps, right there in the waiting room?

Or maybe you write a blog post about how one of your kids is driving you to drink and then the next day, she is as sweet and charming as Shirley Temple.

So yeah.

THANK YOU for all your comments! I'm following up by email for those of you who have had similar experiences with your kids.

And I am going to take her for an OT evaluation, thanks to the ever-wise Rita. (Do you all read Rita? Ok, click right now and go read her. Don't stop until you get to a picture of Paige and her precious cheeks. I'll wait.....)

And I'm being firm but using lots of empowering, reflexive language. "Geez, honey. I bet it really hurts when your head spins in a complete circle like that."

When it comes right down to it, she's tough and she doesn't take any crap from anyone. (Not even me, unfortunately.) For a kid who will only be four foot something fully-grown, that is probably a characteristic I shouldn't squash. I just need to teach her how to be less impulsive about it. (And by "impulsive," I mean "violent.")

For every negative, there is a silver lining. (Perhaps I can see that since I'm writing on a Monday with a full week of school ahead of me instead of a Friday, with a whole weekend looming.)

Besides the OT, I have appointments lined up to talk to people. Her endocrinologist, her pediatrician, her geneticist. I'm getting her hearing checked (oh if only it was just that she couldn't HEAR me saying, "Stop rolling back and forth in the main aisle of Target. THIRTY people are staring at you.") But if she can't hear (which is something we have to keep an eye on), it could be discombobulating her in other ways. We'll see about the sleep study.

One way or another, we'll figure out as much as can be figured out. And then we'll go from there.