Neuro Feedback

I suppose I could title this post "The Lords hand...part II" 

I've been wanting to post about this for a few weeks now, but it's too involved for just one post -- so I'll start here and see where it goes. 

Sometime in the middle of July I was working with Garrett on his math facts.  This has always been an area of struggle for him.  Each school year, we let the teachers work their magic and he seems we progress just a little bit.  Each summer I try to work my magic (or lack there of) and we don't progress much.  So this summer while I was working with him I suddenly got really frustrated with the fact that his focus in this area was seemingly getting worse.  I felt like we hadn't really progressed a lot with Math in the past 2 years or so.  More than I want him to be a rocket scientist, I want him to have a good self esteem about his ability to do well in academic areas.  I struggled with Math a lot in school (and I know Philip did too - so this is no shock that Garrett is struggling with it) and I have always had the concept in my brain that I am not good at math, meaning I don' t have the ability.  I know that is not true, I just needed the right route to get there and I want to help Garrett find that route. 

 I decided (finally) that Garrett was probably going to need medication to help his attention difficulties.  This is something I've been arguing in my head for years.  Philip and I really don't like the concept of medication for our child.  The possibilities of side and long term effects just haven't seemed to outweigh the benefits.  Well -- it was to that point -- the ugly point of "I guess he needs medicine."   I called my friend in Utah (her husband is a physician, she has medical background and their son had recently started taking meds for similar reasons)  I just felt like I needed a direction to go with this road of medicine we were about to start on. 

To my pleasant surprise, she told me they had gone a different route, Neuro Feedback,  and it was working.  It had calmed her sons brain down enough that he was off the medication in 5 or so  sessions!  This was probably the most exciting news I had heard in a long time. 

I felt like the phone call was an immediate answer to prayer - a prayer that had been in my heart for about 4 years now.  A prayer that I was so confused and frustrated about -- and He answered it, clear as day, in one phone call.  By the time I got home that day my friend had emailed me info about Feedback centers here in town and another Mother to discuss this with.  By the end of day, I had made the eval. appointment and was on cloud nine (minus the cost factor -- more on that later) 

Once again, He truly hears our prayers and we don' t  know when they will be answered...but they will.

For info on Neuro Feedback (especially if you are family and interested in our cute Garrett) check out these links.....Here and Here.    The second article shows a bit more skepticism -- something I had a lot of.  I still feel like I can fight skepticism with faith and whatever the Lord will have done, will be done. :)  We have seen some awesome progress and I'll be posting more about that soon.