My life with the Sullivan boys

Busy Weekend...Owen, Joe, Sue, Katy and Aunt Susan went to the fair again on Saturday, lots of people, wow! Sunday: Went to the pool and celebrated Aunt Katy's 30th birthday! No pictures! I forgot my camera at home...

Dermot went to the eye doctor today. She discovered that Dermot has mild cortical vision impairment. See link for more info: http://www.ohiolionseyeresearch.com/cortical_visual_impairment.htm He got these really cool glasses, Owen was really jealous!

Took the whole family to the State Fair today. Aunt Katy joined us too! Perfect weather!

What a joy. Ryan Sullivan is a spitfire. at three and a half months he sleeps thru the night, has rolled over and wants to be a part of everything! God bless him.

My beautiful Dermot. This summer has been tough for him. His seizure disorder continues and so does our journey with doctors, therapies and drugs. At one time this summer Dermot was on 4 different medications all at once, not surprisingly he turned into a lethargic blob. We said enough, he's now on two medications and is being slowly weaned off one of them, Klonopin. In case you've never heard of it, it's in the barbituate family of drugs, we didn't realize 18 months ago what exactly it was when we agreed to give it to him. Our hope is that he'll continue to be less drowsy, drooly and floopy as we wean him from it. Dermot has been very busy with appointments this summer. Along with the two weekly physical therapies and occupational therapy, I have taken him to see a chiroprator, an herbalist and a physiatrist. In the coming weeks he will go to the opthamologist, have an MRI and a few blood tests to check for genetic disorders. I started to get more active in his hea...

So I haven't written in over a year. I've had another beautiful boy. Ryan is his name. He was born May 2, 2008. We are just coming up for air, now that everyone finally sleeps thru the night. I think that I will use this site as a way to update friends and family on our life's pleasures and struggles... Please visit when you can and ask many questions if I'm not explaining things enough.