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A Dark Room with a Giant TV4

A couple of weeks ago we had made tentative plans to take Dorrie to the movies to the early showing on Saturday morning. As it turned out, that was much too early for her; she was far too tired to wake up and slept ’til noon that day.

The showing we had intended to go to was special (AMC’s Sensory Friendly Films — a brilliant idea and we definitely will get to one eventually) because we thought they might be more understanding of occasional noise of suctioning. Those are only once a month, but we still wanted to go, so we thought we might dare a regular showing. When the weekend of the 4th was to be sunny, we thought perhaps the movies would be relatively empty what with people at barbecues and doing outdoor stuff.

Dorrie woke up this morning right before we were going to have to wake her, and that was definitely a sign. We’d had her watch Toy Story a few times this week so she’d recognize the characters (it can take her a while to warm up to unfamiliar shows), so we were all ready.

It turned out we were wrong about no one coming to the movies on the morning of the sunny 4th, but we didn’t hear any sick people in there either so it was fine. Somewhat annoying was the fact that the wheelchair seating was basically a big empty area with one lone seat for the non-wheelchair person with them. But it was right at the back in case it was necessary to make a quick exit.

Dorrie did great! There were endless previews, which neither dad nor I had reckoned with, but I rolled her out to the lobby for suctioning once then and one more time during the middle of the movie and that was it! I was so impressed. She was pretty tired of it by the end of the movie (I think she would do better with something that had a little more music or perhaps starred the Muppets) but she stayed fairly calm until it was all done. It was obvious, however, that she was relieved to get back into her carseat.

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