It has been a busy couple of weeks! The boys have been circulating colds back and forth & with Mommy. So needless to say, we have all been crabby & tired.
I took Easton to ENT @ Children's Hospital on Monday. We didn't really get any answers but he is scheduled for ear tube surgery on Feb. 25th. While he is asleep for the surgery, they are going to do several things besides the tube insertion that should give us some answers. They are going to do a biopsy of his esophagus to check for inflammation/irritation that the reflux may have caused. They are going to check his adenoids & if they are too large, they will remove them. The doctor doesn't think this is likely because when he looked at his throat he said his tonsils were pretty small and i guess that can be an indication. (see below for better explanation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenoidectomy
They are also going to check for a laryngeal cleft. (see below for a better explanation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngeal_cleft
If they do find a cleft (they suspect it would be a Type 1), they are going to do what is called a "voice gel injection". They inject a gel substance that essentially "fills" the void (cleft) and over a few months, the gel breaks down & gets absorbed by the body. If that IS the problem with his feeding, choking, etc., this should solve the problem temporarily. If the problem comes back after the gel is gone, then they will have to do a permanent repair.
However...although i am hesitant to count my proverbial chickens, since Thursday, he has been eating his solids (which, as of Monday, he wouldn't touch). Yesterday & today he ate whole containers with no problem. So if this continues, i may postpone his surgery altogether. We had had so many problems made worse by traditonal medicine that if all is well, i may elect to leave well enough alone.
I took E to my holistic doctor on Wednesday and she found a yeast present in his gut & started him on some natural drops to get rid of it. She also put him on a couple other supplements & low & behold, the NEXT DAY, things started to improve. He's mood & eating have improved so much in the last few days, it's amazing. (knock on wood)
Now, Grayson. That little man is doing soooo AWESOME with his speech therapy, ironically, i don't even have words. :-) I updated his word list (on the left side of the screen), it is unbelieveable. Still no "mama" but so many others, i'm trying not to think about that. His speech therapist(SLP) was so astounded on Thursday! He is just so smart & so sweet & even with his cold & 2 molars coming in, he is just one of the best kids you could ask for!! We are going to be starting (I think) what is called PECS, picture exchange communication system. That way, he will have little pictures he can point to to communicate better at home & while we are out. Although his SLP doesn't think is is absolutely necessary, I think it will help since he has a hard time with some of the signs, due to his fine motor delay.
Otherwise, I have the 2 most awesome boys in the world. I am really hoping things are on the up & up with E, because i feel like we haven't been able to enjoy each other much becuase he's been so sick the last few months.
We have our HomExpo this weekend for Kleenaire and so far things are going really well. Except that i lost my voice today but we have booked a bunch of work already and another day to go tomorrow! So, i am exhausted, think i might actually try to take a bubble bath, first one in over a year, *sighs*.
P.S. I will put more pictures up on here soon.
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