Tom Update

Here is where we are at with Tom right now...

Yesterday we had Kindergarten Orientation. I was pleased to see that some of the kids that are in Tom's kindergarten readiness class are also going to the same school for kindergarten. We spoke to the school psychologist, who we had already had contact with earlier in the year and she recommended a summer school program for Tom. We are also on the waiting list to go to see a doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Children's Hospital. We hear she is one of the best in the country to diagnose and recommend treatment for autism. We should get an appointment in September or October. In the meanwhile we are hoping to figure out why Tom is getting sick so often. We go to an ear, nose and throat doctor tomorrow. We have various tests throughout the month and then at the end of the month we will go back to the GI doctor and then the Neurologist. We were told that he needs to be evaluated for Anxiety and Bipolar disorder as well. I am waiting to see what all of these test say before I want to take him to another doctor that will prescribe more medicine though. From what I am finding out childhood Bipolar Disorder is very controversial so I am going to have to be careful which doctors I choose if we end up having to go down this path. I will give another update when there is more to share.