Psychological Evaluation

Eden had a psychological evaluation today.  We knew it was probably pointless to do but we were encouraged by professionals to get it done early in Eden's life so we had a benchmark to go from.  The whole reason we had to do it was to try to get Eden on Medicaid to help pay for medical bills.  In order for her to get medicaid she has to be approved for one or both of two waivers.  Either the Ill and Handicap waiver or the Brain Injury Waiver.  So, to first determine if she qualifies for either of those we had to do a psych evaluation.  We were set up for a two hour session with one of the U of I's psychologist. She wasn't very familiar with Aicardi Syndrome so she was reading up on it before we got there.  She had no idea what a great miracle was going to come through her door.  I think about a hundred times during the evaluation the lady couldn't even finish her sentences she was so amazed at Eden.  There were so many things she did to test Eden and Eden just kept passing each one and in the process surprising us all.  For example: we asked her to point to the puppy she pointed, we asked her to then point to a ball and she used her other hand that was closest to the ball to point to that.  There was a test where she laid out two white napkins and hid a bracelet under one of the napkins.  Eden didn't even hesitate, she just lifted up the napkin to find it.  The lady then hid it under the other napkin and Eden used her other hand to lift that napkin to find it.  Eden said Kitty at a picture of a cat while we were there, she was pulling herself up to the table in the room...the list goes on and on!  At the end of the session, which despite our greatest efforts to fill the whole time slot only lasted a little over an hour because she was passing tests left and right, the psychologist said, 'well the good news is she is developing at a 15 month old level (she's 11 months), the bad news is you definitely don't qualify for either of the waivers!'  Hey, we'll take it!  We couldn't be happier or prouder!  What a little miracle Eden is!