Friends With FOP

It’s Friday and so far today has been a good day for all the kids.  There is no school today and Brennan, Larkin, and the daycare kids are having a good time playing together.  Usually Brennan and Larkin only have a few hours (if that) to play with Jaiden and Riley.  All four boys are in a good mood playing games together. 

Erin’s potty training has been hit-n-miss.  I send her to preschool in a diaper and she feels that she can still go in it.  There is no preschool on Fridays and I’ve put her back in underwear.  I am feeling pretty good that we are very close to eliminating diapers all together.  Now that the last flare up has completely gone away she is back to her old self.  I don’t see too much change to the left side of her back/shoulder.  Now her left arm seems to be locking in a lower position as before which makes it more difficult to get shirts on.  I couldn’t believe it when she told me one day last week how she wanted to put her shirt on.  She wanted to put her left arm through the sleeve first, then I stretched the shirt to go over her head, and finally slipped her right arm in the sleeve.  Now I feel confident that she’ll come up with her own way of doing things.  That’s what I’ve been told by others living with FOP – that she’ll learn to do things her way.

By the way, we did have a 4.5 earthquake today and we’re all okay.  Luckily our family slept through it.  Even as I started my morning routine, I did not see anything different with the house.  Nothing was out of order except for the mess that was left last night before bedtime.  I didn’t realize that the earthquake happened until I turned on the television.  The epicenter wasn’t too far from us – in Kingston, WA.  The news is reporting that it was a fairly shallow earthquake and it was felt as far north in Vancouver BC.�