Fee-fee (fire truck), Dump-a (dump truck), and Bae-bal (baseball) are some of his obsessions right now. Luckily, Middleton's fire department often has the trucks parked out front. University Avenue is under significant construction with various trucks parked in the median. One of the local parks often has kids out practicing batting. It is not unheard of for Sam to stumble into the "trifecta" of fee-fee, bae-bal, and dump-a all in the same day.
He loves to climb. This morning I was standing and wrestling with him. He grabbed my thumbs, then put one foot in front of the other up my legs, stomach, and chest until he was standing on my shoulders. Then he sort of rappelled down as I lowered my arms. We did this over and over until his arms were too tired to pull my thumbs to his chest. When he goes down the twisty slide at the park he often reverses at the bottom and climbs back up the slide. I have to remove him so other kids can go down. He seems to think that if he never leaves the slide then it is not the next kid's turn.
The supraventricular tachycardia (fast heart rate) plan has been changed a bit. Originally we were going to wait until age two to start lowering the dosing and figure out if Samuel is one of the lucky third who grow out of it. The plan now is to start the reduction in August. He will drop by half a milliliter every few weeks until it is completely out of his system. Kate and I will have to get back into regular stethoscope practice and watch him more closely to see if his pulse is racing.
If everything goes perfectly he would be completely off medication before his second birthday. If his heart rate picks up when we drop the dose then we go back to the old dose.
Either way things could change. He could still grow out of it. He could still grow "back into it" later in life. The upside of dealing with this in a couple of years is that he would feel it and could explain to someone what was happening.
Prayers for the best case scenario are appreciated.
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