As you could probably assume this post is about doctors and paxtons health. First i will start with pax turning two. I get major anxiety now every time i have to take him to his doctors appointments, and at his 2 year appointment i had a knot in my stomach and i new it wasn't good. He still hasn't gained weight since his heart surgery almost a year ago, she was very concerned about that, and we are working on it. But if you ask me its not a problem he looks totally fine to me, he is not a big eater like most boys, he eats just enough and i know its a 2 year old thing, they get picky.
The other concern she has with him which i keep putting off, is his speech. He doesn't talk, and honestly i wasn't very worried about it, me and greg are quite people and i just thought he was a quite boy, but it is a little strange in how he talks, he doesn't say words, he mumbles everything, he doesn't open is mouth at all when he talks he uses the back of his throat. If you ask me how many words he says, its maybe 4 he doesn't say words. but he is very smart and he has his ways of telling you what he needs. no matter how much i tried convincing his pediatrician it wasn't a concern she wasn't buying it and told me he needs speech therapy. Once again i left crying feeling awful about my mothering skills, i know to some of you its not a big deal, but when your child keeps having one health problem after another its gets very tiring and costly.
So fast forward to march and things got worse, he got very sick one night and spiked a very high fever and his breathing was very strange. We got him into his pediatrician that night and she was very worried about him, they tried 2 different steroids and a deep suctioning but his breathing was very labored, so off to primary children' s hospital we go. luckily by the time we arrived his oxygen had stabilized and he wasn't in critical need of service. They tested him for RSV and it was positive which the entire time i new it was, because he has had it before. But he was still very very sick, they didn't want to admit him because they felt he would do better at home, so we left with a nebulizer and some albudrol to do breathing treatments at home. I honestly felt really good about this, even though his breathing was a little strange, he still was trying to suck on his damn binki so to me it wasn't too alarming. He was pretty sick for about 2 weeks and he needed the breathing treatments 2 a day for a while, it was pure hell, he had a really hard time sleeping, and the breathing treatments would get him all wild because it would make his heart race, so it was hard giving him those at night before bed because he would start running laps around the house lol.
But of course the doctors were concerned about it and wants us to go see another doctor about him possibly having asthma, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! another freakin doctor for him to see aaahhhhh!!!!!! i know i know they are worried about him but sometimes i wonder if this is all necessary, i mean he did just have heart surgery so his upper respiratory is going to be weakened by that, i don't know i always thought asthma was a concern all year long, not just when he gets sick once a year in march. anyways we still are deciding what to do about that, it takes months to get into the doctor we want to go to so we are kinda waiting it out for now.
oh but don't you worry we have plenty of other doctors appointments to go to in the mean time, when the speech therapist finally came out to start doing speech therapy a nurse came with her to check his hearing and of course his left ear failed so now we have to go and get some hearing tests done to see how his hearing is. I had one major break down after that appointment now all i can think about is something is wrong with his hearing uuugggghhhh its never ending people. This poor kid has so many health problems its giving me major anxiety and this momma has not been sleeping. I was so naive and thought getting through his heart surgery was the only health problem we were ever going to have with him. WRONGO its just so odd to me that paisley is perfectly healthy she has never been to a hospital for anything. and then BAM we have pax and hes full of it, i dont know if its a boy thing, or this kid just has really really bad luck. but i am ready for him to be a happy healthy 2 year old boy. so that's been our life lately, im so looking forward to st george over spring break to ease my mind and release some major built up stress.
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