O.k. so are you ready for this … ABSOLUTELY NO GRATIFICATION DISORDER FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK !!!!!!!!! I mean nothing – nada - zip. It’s like she just woke and said nope don’t this anymore. And “NO” I don’t think it’s because she has outgrown this. I really feel in my heart of hearts that she’s mastered moving her bowels and has just discovered that it’s not as bad as she had thought.

We’ve all been very sick ( the FLU ) here and yes in the beginning of her symptoms she did have some GD – soothing her. But on Thurs my mother took me to the Dr. and stayed in the waiting room with her and apparently she just W/O GD  turned to her and said “I go big poopy.” and sure enough when I came out she had one heck of a dirty diaper. But that was it no GD leading up to the event and none after. Not even at bed time / naps / car rides it’s no where to be found thank God. AND she’s gone in her diaper three more times just like – she’ll look at me and say “I goin poopies now.” and then that’s it !!!!!!!!!!

We haven’t even had to use Miralax all week. Mostly because we’ve been so sick that she hasn’t needed it but none the less it hasn’t been used. SO OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!  Even if this is all due to end (fingers crossed hoping not ever) it’s has been WONDERFUL to not see GD for an entire week not just a day A WEEK. It’s a mini GD vacation. Hopefully it’ll continue and her GD has run it’s course.

I really feel that if we hadn’t found her Tactile Sensory / bowel movement “fear” this wouldn’t be the post that it is. I think this is all thanks to a lot of hard work, trying things out and narrowing down a lot of things to get her to this point. Without all this she’d still be doing it none stop I’m sure.

Oh please God let this be the end for her !!!

Posted: February 20th, 2008 under Good Days.
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This post is actually way over due but here it is none the less …  My daughter had a wonderful break through – if one would call it that. She woke a week ago and played, ate, conversed, etc. all the normal things a little girl her age should be doing. Then out of the blue (WITHOUT ANY GD) she came up to me and said “Mommy, I have to go poopy on the potty.” Usually once I say “o.k. let’s go” she’ll start crying and screaming saying “no, no, mommy.” This time she walked by herself, as calm as can be, into the bathroom and started getting ready to go!!!!! Still in disbelief over what was happening I followed and helped her. AGAIN NO FIT AT ALL – remember usaully she’ll start screamin / crying afraid to go. Then she says “mommy, I feel the poopy comin’.” Also something we’ve been working on. Explaining the feeling / sensation as related to her  Tactile Sensory Defensiveness.

Then like she’s been doing it all along she just pushed them out, stood up said “yeah, I go poopy. Let’s make them go bye, bye!!” And that was that – NO GD AT ALL – ALL DAY!!!!! Remember when she needs to move her bowels the GD is out of control and the more she has to move her bowels the worse the GD gets.

I was so speechless!!! I never thought this would be the milestone that would make me the happiest. At 24 months old she’s speaking 10 word sentence’s with words like - actually, counting correctly and singing her alphabet along with many other things. But the greatest accomplishment for her was doing this all by herself, without GD, without screaming in fear. She was just 100% normal about the whole bowel movement.

Has there been GD since - YES!! But you know what … This was a little peak at the light at the end of this dark tunnel. This shows that as far as she’s concerned this IS helping her to control / overcome this. She will overcome this and we can all see it now. Will it be soon (I pray) probably not but at least all this work on our end isn’t in vain.

Keeping my fingers crossed for many, many more days like this one!!!

Posted: February 4th, 2008 under Good Days.
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