Friday, January 9, 2009

Chair...where?

Mitchell was fitted for a wheelchair over 6 months ago. At that point we were in disbelief that a chair would be needed, but understood that eventually Mitchell would outgrow most strollers and would need more support while sitting due to his hypotonia (low tone). Would you believe it takes 4-6 months to get a wheelchair once ordered? With that in mind our PT followed up at 3 months only to find the order was never placed. At 6 months both the PT and Chris started calling. After 10 phone messages were left, we knew there was some sort of problem. Then a letter dated December 19th showed up in January saying the firm with whom the order was placed is in receivership with Hamilton County’s common pleas court. Interesting. So today we met with Mitchell’s rehabilitation doc to start again. After not seeing her for 6 months, she thought Mitchell looked good. With her ok, we're now just waiting for the referral to the wheelchair clinic at Children's hospital.

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