Our family was trying to make a decision on a very important topic today. We were frantically trying to determine what Alex’s user name should be once I set her up with an email address. Who would have thought a few years ago that Alex would have an email address. Definitely not the doctors who were working around the clock to save her life back at the NICU. At that time, the last thing on my husband’s and my mind is an email address. We were focused on her daily progress. Tracking her vitals minute by minute as we called the nurses at the NICU several times per day on the days that we couldn’t be there.
It took her several years to start enjoying the computer that is in her room with the touch screen that allows her to activate her games and interact with it. It is wonderful to see her little face in deep concentration as she manipulates each game and level on that screen. Her little finger stays busy going around the screen changing scenery, colors and shapes. Again, I wouldn’t have dreamt that would be possible.
Back to the email thing, we are definitely going to start a yahoo mail or hotmail account for her this weekend. She may not be verbal or know how to write but she is sure giving us feedback about her likes and dislikes of the usernames we are picking for her account. Her head shakes a strong “No” to certain names while agreeing on some others.
How times have changed with this new age of technology. Who would have thought that kids as young as five are using computers and emails. Oh Well, Alex is just another kid and she deserves her own email address so that is the plan for the weekend..
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