I Ain't To Proud To Beg (or at least to ask for help)!

Hello world! It's been a bit since we had a blog post. It's crazy to think that in just over a month it will be 2 years since Elemér became a part of our family. It has definitely been a journey. He has come a long way in these 2 years but still has a long way to go. He's worked with private speech therapists and OT therapists for almost all of those 2 years as well as worked with speech teachers and OT people provided by the school district. He's had amazing teachers and all of these people have done a great job in helping him make these strides. Also, this year he was officially diagnosed with ADHD. Any of you that have been around him at all though realize that this wasn't a shocker.

Recently we've heard commercials on a radio station out here for centers called Brain Balance that specialize in working with kids to help strengthen the areas of their brain that are weak/under developed. This is a very basic explanation of it all. If you want a better understanding, please go check out their website https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/our-program/ and/or check out the book, Disconnected Kids, by Dr. Robert Melillo.

Needless to say we started researching this, reading the book, reading the blogs of people who have had their kids go through the program, the opinions of medical professionals online, etc. While the medical profession overall doesn't seem to think very highly of this program, they slowly seem to be coming around. I haven't been able to find a blog of someone who has put their child through this and really followed all aspects of the program who hasn't seen their child have great success. We decided to at least go and get Elemér evaluated. Next week we meet with them to go over the results and determine the best individualized plan for him to move forward. 

Now comes the part where I beg...not really, but I am going to ask if you would be willing to help us again. I know many of you donated to help us adopt Elemér and for that we are eternally greatful. While insurance will cover Elemér going to see OT and speech therapists, they will not cover this program even though those things are in this program as well. I'm hoping that whether you were able to help us before or not that you would consider helping us out again. The program, at a minimum is 12 weeks/3 months long (1 session). The cost for a session is $6000. I don't want you to think I'm asking you all to fund the entire thing. I've started a Go Fund Me compaign to take donations and it does show $6000 as the goal, and that is the goal but Jen and I fully plan on putting money into this as well, obviously. We just aren't sure we can come up with the entire amount ourselves, in time to start (which could be as early as later this June), but we will figure it out if we have to. We'd prefer to not take out a loan or finance it but we think we have enough friends and family that are willing to invest in this with us that we won't have to go that route.

We are going after every opportunity to help Elemér reach his full potential!  If you'd be willing to join with us again and help please click the button below or on the side of blog to go to our fundraising campaign.