Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Unwanted Neighbors
We have been finding a ton of Yellow Jacket wasps in the house this year. I've probably killed six or eight on the last month. It looks like they are planning on staying! Paige spotted this right above my front door.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Admit One
London has decided that she hates eating again. I called Dr. Neigut on Fraiday afternoon to see what she thought and she decided to admit her that night to observe her and get the tests done. I was in Wal-Mart grocery shopping during all of those conversations, so I finished up and went home to pack. Mom came and got the other kids and we left at about 6pm to go to Denver. We got there at about 10:30 and got checked in pretty quickly. Nothing happened that night except basically getting situated. We had to weigh her diapers and write down how her feedings went. The biggest concern was that she was getting dehydrated. And as it turns out, nothing happens on the weekends with getting tests done. So after spending most of Saturday just waiting around , they decided that she wasn't dehydrated and was okay to be discharged.
They suggested that we stay in the Ronald McDonald house until Monday to get the tests done, but we decided to go home and come back when we actually need to. Now I am just waiting for a call back to see when we need to go. I will be taking London and David will stay here with the kids at night and we'll have to find someone to keep them during the day. She will be having the swallowing study, the upper GI and a scope of her throat done. It breaks my heart to think of what she is going to have to go through, but we need to get to the bottom of this.
They suggested that we stay in the Ronald McDonald house until Monday to get the tests done, but we decided to go home and come back when we actually need to. Now I am just waiting for a call back to see when we need to go. I will be taking London and David will stay here with the kids at night and we'll have to find someone to keep them during the day. She will be having the swallowing study, the upper GI and a scope of her throat done. It breaks my heart to think of what she is going to have to go through, but we need to get to the bottom of this.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Daily Paige
I teach a fitness class at the gym called SilverSneakers and it is for senior citizens. I think the average age of the particpants is probably 73. The kids go with me and watch tv but usually hang out in the studio while I set up and the ladies love them. There were probably a dozen ladies in class today.
So here's today's amusing bit, from after the class was over and we were going home:
Paige: Mom, who was that old lady with the short, grayish-silverish hair?
So here's today's amusing bit, from after the class was over and we were going home:
Paige: Mom, who was that old lady with the short, grayish-silverish hair?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
London's Eating Disorder
I suppose you could call it that. She was such a great eater at birth, I don't know what happened. It all started at about three weeks or so. She got really fussy when I would try to nurse her and would refuse to eat. Sometimes she would do just fine, sometimes she would start to eat and then start screaming and be done, and sometimes she would just flat out refuse. I took her to see the doctor and she didn't know what to do for her and we tried some Zantac, thinking it might be reflux. That didn't help. I tried gripe water and that didn't help either.
A couple of weeks ago, I took her back to the doctor for her two month check up and she was just crazy. It had been about five hours since she had eaten, but still refused to eat, and she was just inconsoleable. He sent me to the ER at Alamosa to get checked out and she had an x-ray done to see if everything was in its proper place and everything looked fine there. I had gotten her to eat just before that, though, so she was a lot more calm then. She is gaining weight slowly, so that at least was good.
After about two months of this, I was kind of at my wit's end. Something is wrong with her and we need to figure it out. Dr. Franco made a referral up to the GI department at Children's Hospital at Denver. I also decided to take her to see Jan Mortensen, aka the witch doctor, to see if there were any essential oils that could help her. She did kind of an adjustment on her and said that her neck was out of whack and that her stomach was up under her ribs. She also said that she probably had strep and that it was likely her throat hurting that was causing her so much trouble. I have been putting tea tree oil on her feet to help with that and she is doing better. She still wasn't 100% better, though, so we still took her to the GI appointment in Denver.
Her appointement was on Monday, yesterday, so we went up on Sunday and stayed with Alyson and Kirk. The doctor, Deborah Neigut, thought it was probably either reflux or a swallowing problem. She wrote her a prescription for prevacid and told us to try it for a week and see if there is any improvement. We are also going to make an appointment for a swallowing study to see if there are any issues there. Which reminds me, I need to make the call to get that done. Apparently, it takes about a month to get an appointment, so we'll see if the prevacid works while we are waiting for that.
David went to the chiropractor today and told him about London's problems. He told David that he has had a lot of success helping infants with reflux by adjusting them. I made her an appointment at the beginning of May and the soonest one I could get was June 24th! So we'll see if that helps, but I'm not waiting to start the meds until then, like he also suggested to David. If he could see her today, then sure.
A couple of weeks ago, I took her back to the doctor for her two month check up and she was just crazy. It had been about five hours since she had eaten, but still refused to eat, and she was just inconsoleable. He sent me to the ER at Alamosa to get checked out and she had an x-ray done to see if everything was in its proper place and everything looked fine there. I had gotten her to eat just before that, though, so she was a lot more calm then. She is gaining weight slowly, so that at least was good.
After about two months of this, I was kind of at my wit's end. Something is wrong with her and we need to figure it out. Dr. Franco made a referral up to the GI department at Children's Hospital at Denver. I also decided to take her to see Jan Mortensen, aka the witch doctor, to see if there were any essential oils that could help her. She did kind of an adjustment on her and said that her neck was out of whack and that her stomach was up under her ribs. She also said that she probably had strep and that it was likely her throat hurting that was causing her so much trouble. I have been putting tea tree oil on her feet to help with that and she is doing better. She still wasn't 100% better, though, so we still took her to the GI appointment in Denver.
Her appointement was on Monday, yesterday, so we went up on Sunday and stayed with Alyson and Kirk. The doctor, Deborah Neigut, thought it was probably either reflux or a swallowing problem. She wrote her a prescription for prevacid and told us to try it for a week and see if there is any improvement. We are also going to make an appointment for a swallowing study to see if there are any issues there. Which reminds me, I need to make the call to get that done. Apparently, it takes about a month to get an appointment, so we'll see if the prevacid works while we are waiting for that.
David went to the chiropractor today and told him about London's problems. He told David that he has had a lot of success helping infants with reflux by adjusting them. I made her an appointment at the beginning of May and the soonest one I could get was June 24th! So we'll see if that helps, but I'm not waiting to start the meds until then, like he also suggested to David. If he could see her today, then sure.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Daily Paige
The kids all wanted to sleep together in the girls' room and I was asleep in my bed. Enter Paige at about 7am.
Paige: Mom, Jack is talking to his dumb panda and won't let Jenna and me sleep.
Me: Paige, you just did to me exactly what you are complaining about.
Paige: Oh.
Paige: Mom, Jack is talking to his dumb panda and won't let Jenna and me sleep.
Me: Paige, you just did to me exactly what you are complaining about.
Paige: Oh.
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