Yesterday I got a call from Jackson's PT. Essentially he is being dumped from therapy at the clinic where he has been receiving PT and OT. Tuesday will be his last day there. Both of his therapists are pregnant and Jackson is quite labor intensive and heavy and I guess they don't want to deal with him any more.
He will be starting school (August 31) so we had asked them a while back to see if there was a time slot later in the day so that he will not have to miss school to come to therapy. I had also told them that I would consider an early morning time so then I could just drop him off at school after therapy. The PT said that since there was a waiting list for the afternoon times (ignoring that I would consider AM times) that they were not going to be able to see him anymore. I asked if he could finish out the summer and she said that since she was going to be taking vacation time and the OT was not going to be able to handle him alone that the answer was no.
I am pretty pissed off and hurt about this. First, it is very short notice and not at all professional, especially when Jackson has been coming there for years. Second, Jackson has had to deal with so many changes lately, it's really not fair to drop him all of a sudden like this. Third, with being on break from school AND losing his respite day AND being dropped from City Kids, that leaves him with NO activities for the rest of the summer and with the amount of attention Zoe has been demanding lately and with Lee and me trying to unpack and organize from our move it really sucks to be a kid who can do nothing for himself.
This was the best and pretty much only exercise that Jackson gets all week and he had such a good time there. They had a reasonably good grasp of his physical needs (not so much of his cognitive strengths) and they really were able to make it fun for him. He will get therapies at school, hopefully they will be a much better quality than what he was getting at his old school. He will have PE 5 days a week there at least.
