Tuesday, Jan 13th Appointments

Dennis was still very sick throughout the night on Monday. Kaitlyn woke up at my parent's house and was feeling better, or so we thought, so she went on to preschool. My mom came to go to the doctor appointments for Kyleigh so I wouldn't be by myself. The first appointment was with Dr. Pamela Reitneur a pediatrician and genetic specialists. The goal of this appointment was to see if a link between genetics (heredity) and birth defects could be found. In the middle of the appointment Kaitlyn's preschool called and said she was crying and vomiting. So I called in reinforcements - great grandparents- to help us out. We left the doctor's office with little to no information today and headed to the preschool to get Kaitlyn. She was so happy to see her mommy and made it very clear that she didn't feel good. We all headed home and I called the doctor to try and get Kaitlyn an appointment. 

Meanwhile, the great grandparents came so that they could go with me to Kyleigh's afternoon appointment while mom takes care of Kaitlyn. Kyleigh's afternoon appointment was at Women's for an audiological test to check hearing frequencies and fluid. She unfortunately has fluid built up on her ears already and it is affecting her hearing. She failed the screening most likely due to the fluid. As a result we will have to keep a close watch on her ears as the fluid could become infected. We will also need to elevate her bed more, elevate the changing table and change her feeding position to help alleviate the milk flowing to the middle ear as often. It is also 99-100% that she will need tubes in her ears as statistically children with cleft palates get tubes put in before age 1. 

Kaitlyn's doctor appointment was at 2:40 and by 4:00 I hadn't heard from my mom. I called and come to find out they never told the nurse that she had checked in. She was still waiting to see the doctor. Are you kidding me? I was furious. I called the front desk and gave them an earful as to why my sick daughter should not still be waiting to see a doctor and I wanted someone to see her now. Within 3 minutes a doctor was in the room examining Kaitlyn. She has an eye infection and a bad cold. The congestion is what caused her to vomit. So they put her on Zyrtec, Nasonex, and eyedrops. The cute thing is that when mom explained to the nurse what was wrong with Kaitlyn, Kaitlyn responded with this statement- "Oh man, I am never going to get to go back to preschool". Bless her heart. She loves preschool and hadn't gone this week until today and because she threw up had to leave. She was also disappointed that we wouldn't let her kiss and touch Kyleigh. We can't wait until she is feeling better so that she can interact with her sister and go to preschool again.