The PT assessment was w/ Children's Hospital and they probably see a lot of head injury cases. I'm not sure if it plays a role now that it's been 3 years. They are going to do PT 1X per week and work on a variety of things. I'll ask the PT what they plan to do about the balance issue and if they typically see kids like him who don't have a head injury, or if it might be related. The head injury was bad enough that he had two cracks in his skull, one was depressed in so air got into his brain. A nerve in his brain was paralyzed (6th cranial nerve) but luckily it healed. The space where he had a blow to his head was literally right on his right ear, and blood was running out of his ear which I don't think is uncommon with basal skull fractures. The location of the blow makes me wonder if there might be a vestibular issue. Not sure if right vs. left makes a difference at all. The neurosurgeon seemed hyperfocused on the Chiari because DS was reporting headaches, and wanted to do another MRI. Since DS stopped reporting headaches after a few months we stopped seeing him.
I have thought about gymnastics class but I don't think he could handle the class that 9 year old boys normally go in and I don't think he'd agree to a class with 5 year olds. I haven't looked into classes for kids w/ special needs, maybe that's an option, but since he is so bright you have to wonder what that would do to his self esteem. The same is true of other sports. He's just too far behind and hates sports. For now we'll go w/ PT and see what comes of it.
