Bits

Lucas has seemingly been better for the last few days, though we do now have a date for his GOSH admission. Should be there for 3 or 4 days in a couple of weeks. Bloods every two hours for 4 days. Great.

School have been a bit slack - we have been asking frequently for over a year for Lucas to get suitable Maths games, which his peers get every week, to be sent home. It's happened once so far (in his last IEP there was mention of his Maths skills not keeping up with his literacy skills. Hmmm). We have a home/school book which we are going to highlight every day until we get something for him!

Day to Day

Lucas was back at school today. When asked about how his day was, he responds with the immortal, "yeah, it was fine" and provides scant details!

He was working on numeracy, which means I'm going to have to work harder and start actually working on my Braille Maths! I'm leaving reading and contractions to Sarah for the moment - I'm reasonably good at reading Braille but as Lucas is learning his contractions it's getting trickier!

Lucas is really quick on his Mountbatten. I really don't know why people bother with Perkins anymore - it's not as if they are cheap! It's like sighted kids being provided with a 19th century typewriter instead of a computer nowadays. If only the RNIB would start buying in bulk to bring the price down. I feel a campaign coming on!

School

Lucas has had a slightly interrupted week at school due to the episode and subsequent check up and the time off to check that the probes were working.

He has otherwise had a really good week it seems and has been given a maths game called beetle to play, which we intend to do this weekend.