Starting Over...
The week before Dave left our feeding therapist was watching us give Jonah a drink of water since that seems to be his favorite, what he saw was that there was a good possibility that Jonah was aspirating. This was not what we wanted to hear. This was cause enough for us to shy away from feeding him anything by mouth until we could get some answers. So when we went to dysphasia (feeding) clinic a couple of weeks ago we voiced our therapist's concern to the team and they felt strongly that a swallow study should be conducted to see if Jonah can safely swallow liquids without aspirating. The swallow study was scheduled for Feb. 5th. The morning of the 5th I found out that Tricare flat out refused to cover the procedure. I was so upset. I called and rescheduled the study for the end of the month in hopes that I will be able to convince Tricare that this is something Jonah needs. So this week I've finally come to grips that we'd best continue trying to feed him purees...