Tab & I really had a shite day today.
We went for her 1 month check up at 2pm.
Her head is still enormous – now around the 150th percentile! No cause for concern though. She is in the 50th percentile for height and the 25th for weight.
Checked her ears and she has a double ear infection AGAIN. This means she now has to have tubes (grommets). We will be getting a referral to an ENT surgeon & then going after we get back from vacation.
Because she has now had all available antibiotics twice she has to have a heavy duty course of injection ones over the next 3 days so I have to take her back tomorrow & the day after. She did not like the shot, then we had to wait 30 mins to make sure she didn’t have a bad reaction to it.
MEANWHILE, I also told him about her 911 choking incident last Thursday and he was alarmed to hear that we hadn’t noticed anything come out of the other end. He said if she had swallowed a coin (something we suspected after finding Harry beside her with a penny in hand) and it was still in her stomach it could cause her big problems so he wanted her to have an XRay.
After our 30 mins of waiting for the shot, we trot down to xray (same building) and get that done. Tab was starting to get really aggravated by being there as you can imagine. She was hungry. I was hungry, hadn’t eaten all day. She braved the Xray though! The XRay techs tell me they don’t think they see anything.
Went back upstairs, waited for another eternity to see the Doc again. Tab is now melting down. I am almost doing the same. DR comes in and tells me that he and 3 colleagues think that they can see a blockage and that they’ve sent the xray results to the hospital radiology department for review. If it is blocked it’ll mean surgery.
I get home (5.30) worried sick – obviously. She definitely has to have ear surgery now we might have to have abdominal surgery too!
6.30pm the phone rings and the DR tells me that there is NO BLOCKAGE. Thank goodness.
Have to go back tomorrow for another antibiotic shot.
*gah*
Meanwhile of course she is not sleeping due to ear infection and hasn’t’ for a week. SO TIRED!!!!