I cannot imagine what our ten months with Rowan would have been like without the support of the caring, knowledgeable staff and the skills that PTC provided us. Though I cannot speak for Rowan and Hayden, I can tell you it would have been a much harder road for me. Every parent looks for ways to help their child learn and grow…with Rowan I administered meds and feedings, ordered meds, supplies, and oxygen tanks, documented seizures, took him to and from appointments, checked his vitals, and pretty much felt like I was simply there to keep him alive. PTC changed all of that for me. Being at PTC was an amazing breath of fresh air in the middle of a very suffocating routine.
From our first appointment at PTC it felt different than any of the other gazillion appointments we had gone to prior. We were treated like people, not patients. I know what a difficult, somewhat hopeless case Rowan was, as we later learned how degenerative his seizures were…but at the time I had every hope in the world that he would gain the skills he needed to be able to enjoy life to his potential...continued...