Bye therapy

This week we had tears. Wednesday afternoon was hard for us.

We said goodbye to a place we have been going to weekly since Jillian was 20months old for several hours a week....

The therapy location in our county is closing on Tuesday and this past Wednesday was our last day there. It was hard. There are so many amazing memories there. Tears of firsts and working hard. Laughs and joys. Amazing therapists that came along side us. As Jilli's Ot session was finishing she stopped listening to us and it took us a minute to catch on that the behavior was coming from it hitting her that it was her last time in this place. This wasn't a wanted end on our part or any of the staff that works there which made it even harder.

We have made the choice for now to switch to the main campus of the company we have been using as they are moving our therapists there however it is now an hour drive to get there and I am not looking forward to that in the midwest winters. Also instead of having therapy two days a week we are cramming everything into one which is not what is best for Jilli but what we need to do in this situation.

I am still angry at the whole situation. The parent company has been rather crappy through the whole thing. They might be a non for profit but they act like a for profit that is not good at making money choices. There has been a lot of frustration since they announced that they are closing about coverage of therapists and my kids actually getting therapy which was not the therapists fault.

To help Jilli calm down we came up with a plan, we let her use my phone to take pictures so she would remember. For her that really helped.

I will always be grateful for all of the work that has been done in that building to help my kids and saying goodbye was hard but like most of life, we roll on and onto the next adventure and we are trying to find the positives in that.

Here are the pics either Jilli wanted me to take or she took herself: