Day 792 - Climbing Stairs 🧗🏻‍♂️

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

Today we had PT at the house and James showed the therapist how he can climb stairs now. Mom has been practicing with James the last few days. Starting at the top of the stairs. We have a very long staircase and when James was starting at the bottom he could not find the motivation to get started. Whereas when we were at the top of the stairs and Mom only moved him down three or four steps he could see the end in sight! It is a huge milestone, since he has never crawled on a flat surface. James does however like to climb over people when they are in the way, but just so he can continue skooting.

James skooted into Dad's office and found Dad's Tibetan singing bowl. It was a huge hit.

In the evening Mom helped two medical mom's that had questions about equipment and setup. One was regarding how to connect a three-tiered car to a ventilator stand. That one is easy, you just need zip ties and bungee cords. The other was asking if anyone used a sterilizer to sanitize bottles or syringes. Now a lot of moms in the G-tube groups don't use a sterilizer because they say it's unnecessary. We have ours because when James was in the NICU we were required to sterilize all of the baby bottles for pumping. So Mom has continued to use it because, why not? After soaking, hand washing, and drying, the syringes go in the sterilizer before putting them back together.

The G-tube mom wasn't asking if a sterilizer is necessary, she was asking which sterilizer people did use who used one. It's interesting when someone asks for a recommendation or advice in a FB group and people respond with "I don't do that".  Not sure why people feel the need to unnecessarily respond to a question when they cannot answer it. This seems to be common on Amazon too. Someone ask something like, "What are the dimensions?" And someone responds, "I don't know". Why even respond? 🤔

P.S. You can email James your love and support as often as you’d like. Mom and Dad read these email to James as they come in. We all love them! JamesWestonAbramowitz@gmail.com