It’s been a little crazy to say the least…
Isabelle had tubes placed in her ears on the 23rd of December for her chronic ear infections and man what a difference that made almost immediately. On the 24th she was eating and happy like she hadn’t been in weeks.
Christmas was very good; we had an awesome time with family and friends celebrating Jesus’ birth. Quincey got to help Isabelle open her presents so she really enjoyed it this year. The more presents to open the better. Of course we can’t go too long without someone not feeling good so I wrapped up Christmas day with a migraine that caused me to leave early from the last gathering of the day.
Isabelle decided that she wanted to go to the doctor’s office one last time in 2009. She was extremely cranky, not eating, low grade fever on and off, so we went to the ENT doctor’s office on the 31st to get her ears checked and they looked good, so to make sure there wasn’t anything else going on with her we went to the pediatrician’s office (Yep!, two doctor visits in one day) he didn’t see anything wrong with her thought that maybe she’s coming down with something that hasn’t quite reached its full potential, so kept an eye on her over the New Year Holiday.
Started 2010 off on an extremely low key, we stayed home. We’ve had several doctors’ appointments already this year.
On the 8th Isabelle had her 9 month old check up and everything looked good, she weighed 16 lbs 12 oz, measured 28.5 inches long, and her head measurement hasn’t changed so she is right on track with all of her measurements.
On the 13th we went to see the neurosurgeon to discuss what all would be involved in a cranial-facial reshaping surgery if we decided to proceed down that road. Well the news there is not good, there is a high death rate with the surgery, only a few surgeries are successful and there is no functional benefit for the surgery, its 100% cosmetic so we have decided that is not an option. Besides Isabelle is gorgeous the way she is and it doesn’t bother us that her head is a little different.
Quincey turned 4 on the 13th also; we let her go with us to Isabelle’s doctor appointment and just basically had a good family day. Quincey also informed us that her birthday wasn’t over until after she had a birthday cake. So cupcakes, a party at school, party with friends, birthday supper, and birthday cake end of celebrating? NO! She finally decided her birthday was over on the 19th, a week of her birthday.
On the 19th we took Isabelle to see a pediatric ophthalmologist in Gainesville, FL. Dr. examined Isabelle and determined that her eyes are actually working like they are suppose to. I had been told before that Isabelle had pale optical nerves, well that is not the case; her optical nerves look good and have good color. Her eyes work like they are suppose to it just seems that it is her brain doesn’t completely understand what her eyes are seeing. A communication glitch of sorts, something that we have always known could be a possibility. So the Dr. is going to keep seeing her at 6 month intervals and monitor her progress. She also has an outward cross of her eyes that may correct itself or we may eventually have to have it seen about, but not right at this moment.
Oh, I mention vision therapy in the title; Isabelle started seeing a vision therapist on the 15th of January. To begin with we couldn’t determine if Isabelle could actually see anything or not. At times it appears that she sees something but you can’t really tell for sure. Well after our visit to the ophthalmologist we know she can see it just is going to take a little bit more time and work. So she is seeing her therapist every week for an hour and we have actually been able to tell that she is seeing toys and objects, you just have to give her a little longer to look at things before she realizes something is there. So progress we are continuing to make YEAH!!!
Finally we were able to determine what was making Isabelle so cranky, she’s been trying to cut some teeth. By looking at her gums you would think that she was cutting all of her teeth at one time because her gums are nothing but little knots. She got her two bottom front teeth finally through on the 19th. I started giving her some cereal and baby food on the 17th so far she is indecisive on apples, doesn’t like bananas, likes pears okay and really likes her sweet potatoes. She will drink a little bit of juice but its kind of one of those she can take it or leave it.
She is making great progress in holding her head up she won’t do it all the time but she is holding it up more and more each week. She will sit in her highchair and look around at everything and she will play with her toys on her chair and in her crib also.
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