Good morning. Sorry it has taken so long to update, we’ve had a lot going on here. We want to thank everyone that was able to make it to the car wash. We were able to raise $360 to go towards her suit therapy. We didn’t realize that there were a couple of other car washes going on at the same time here in town, so we were surprised we raised as much as we did.

Arianna is doing well, I have started feeding her all her food by mouth and she gets 1 tube feed at night before she goes to bed. She is doing pretty well with this, we are now trying to teach her to chew she only chews 2-3 times then it’s like she forgets so her ST gave me some exercises to work on reteaching her brain to chew.

She has also started vision therapy. She gets this once a week and her therapist comes to the house. Her Vision therapist Mrs. Lois has brought us a light box, which is kind of like a lite brite with a flat screen that we can put different color sheets and blocks on to try and get Ari to look at. Mrs. Lois also brought a few toys for Ari to play with, and a noisy box which has a few toys hanging from it and we lay Ari under to try and get her to reach for the toys. I can’t figure out if she likes it or is trying to figure out why all the toys are hanging in her face. But she does look around at all the toys so she is at least moving her head around (Ari likes to keep her head looking to the left all the time).

We have also started back with ST and OT, we have been waiting since July for Medicaid to decide if she was eligible for it and after I called and told them I was going to go to my state representatives office they had an answer within a couple of hours.

Bernie left this morning for Texas for work he is going to be there for a week to see if he can get any work out there. Please pray he has a safe and productive trip. And also for Arianna’s continued healing. Thank you for your continued support. We love you all.