We did not get to see it in person because we were in the midst of thunder and lightning and so much rain there was flooding around the city. We actually drove through the beginnings of what would later become and impassable intersection because so much water collected. It was getting pretty dark due to the eclipse and the storm so it was hard to see the water--I was lucky it wasn't deeper yet and we made it through.
We started our day with Miss S the Educator. W was really invested in what she was doing, probably because she brought a few things he hasn't seen before. One of her main goals is to get him to focus for longer stretches of time so he can benefit more from his other therapies and everyone has noticed he has been improving :)
W took a nap and then we ate lunch while watch the live NASA feed--we got to see the eclipse over the Pacific and then in Oregon while we prepped and ate lunch. I must admit I took a bunch of screen shots on my phone because it was pretty neat! I had very little hope our storms would clear up long enough for us to see anything in person but the NASA feed was a good substitute.
Then off we went to take the Busy Little B to speech therapy (where we drove through the beginnings of the flood). Everyone who wasn't with a client hung out in the waiting room for us while we watched the sky get darker and darker and darker. We were not in the path of totality but we were supposed to come pretty close so even though we could see anything through the clouds, we could watch the light black out and then come back. The kids though it was cool for a few seconds and then asked to watch cartoons in the waiting room ;)
From there we went straight to the dentist for four back to back appointments. That was a super fun time in the waiting room....... I got to see the last half of Boss Baby. I suppose at some point I'll watch the first half LOL
I fully admit to breaking my budgeting streak and picking up some dinner on the way home. I'm trying to be good and do most of the cooking at home to save money and because its healthier for us but I was tired and just done for the day. So burgers it was :P
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
A trip to the dentist
With the boys, first dentist visits happened around eighteen months. With Iz, though, I had so much trouble finding a dentist who would see her! They hear "heart defect" and "open heart surgery" and they couldn't see her until she was five. I wasn't too worried--until her front teeth started to discolor after several hard falls during some seizures. I finally found a dentist a few months ago willing to see her.....and she was promptly fired as a patient after a very short first visit. She was very anxious, would not sit in the chair, would not let them get a good look in her mouth. Based on the quick look the dentist did get and my description of what happened and the timeline of the graying of her teeth, they advised I get her into a pediatric dentist who could possibly sedate her because she was probably going to need baby root canals to save the teeth to ensure her permanent teeth came in properly down the road.
Finding a pediatric dentist in my area that accepted our insurance was not easy. But I finally found one and while we had to wait about a month to get an appointment, we went in today. Iz was still anxious and not very cooperative but the dentist had several techs come in and between them and myself we held her arms and legs and head still so he could get a look. She wasn't happy but she did get a very good exam and her teeth look great, even the damaged ones! Much of the discoloration is actually now gone and they are returning to their normal color, they are not loose at all, there's no swelling in the gums above the teeth, and while he wants me to continue to keep a close eye on them, he believes she will be just fine. Apparently you can bruise the tissue inside teeth--sometimes the blood that clots in there does kill off the tooth but if the circulation is good enough, it breaks up the clot and the discoloration goes away and the tooth is fine. Looks like she just had some bruising and hopefully when we have her followup, the coloration on those teeth will be absolutely normal and that will be the end of it :p Now that she is on a good dose of her seizure meds, she rarely has injury-inducing falls. She falls, of course, she's only three, but when she used to fall due to seizures, she wouldn't put her hands out to break her fall and that's why she kept hitting her teeth. Now, those hands come out and she sometimes gets a scrape or bump on her hands but that is way better than busting up her face :p
Tomorrow, we head up to the hospital for our new patient visit with the ophthalmologist (the one we've been seeing the past few years moved to California). She is excited because she likes getting her eyes checked plus she packed up her snacks and things and can't wait to use the "lunch purse" we won from Mom on the Go's contest around Christmastime :p S thought the lunch bag was a cool purse so they all call it the "lunch purse" now LOL
Finding a pediatric dentist in my area that accepted our insurance was not easy. But I finally found one and while we had to wait about a month to get an appointment, we went in today. Iz was still anxious and not very cooperative but the dentist had several techs come in and between them and myself we held her arms and legs and head still so he could get a look. She wasn't happy but she did get a very good exam and her teeth look great, even the damaged ones! Much of the discoloration is actually now gone and they are returning to their normal color, they are not loose at all, there's no swelling in the gums above the teeth, and while he wants me to continue to keep a close eye on them, he believes she will be just fine. Apparently you can bruise the tissue inside teeth--sometimes the blood that clots in there does kill off the tooth but if the circulation is good enough, it breaks up the clot and the discoloration goes away and the tooth is fine. Looks like she just had some bruising and hopefully when we have her followup, the coloration on those teeth will be absolutely normal and that will be the end of it :p Now that she is on a good dose of her seizure meds, she rarely has injury-inducing falls. She falls, of course, she's only three, but when she used to fall due to seizures, she wouldn't put her hands out to break her fall and that's why she kept hitting her teeth. Now, those hands come out and she sometimes gets a scrape or bump on her hands but that is way better than busting up her face :p
Tomorrow, we head up to the hospital for our new patient visit with the ophthalmologist (the one we've been seeing the past few years moved to California). She is excited because she likes getting her eyes checked plus she packed up her snacks and things and can't wait to use the "lunch purse" we won from Mom on the Go's contest around Christmastime :p S thought the lunch bag was a cool purse so they all call it the "lunch purse" now LOL
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Iz has always been clumsy. As a baby, we chalked it up to infant unsteadiness. When she fell frequently learning to crawl, we chalked it up to weak arms. As a walker, new balance. And then came the age where we expected her to grow out of it....and she was still falling. Sometimes its a trip, sometimes there is no reason. She can be standing or sitting still and fall over. She would go to get on a chair and completely miss it and fall in front of it. She would head for a doorway and walk into the frame or even the wall beside it. She walks into furniture.
We started seeing an ophthalmologist. She has astigmatism and is developing nearsightedness but it wasn't bad enough to give her glasses so young. They tested her depth perception and it seemed to be okay. She goes every six months to keep an eye on her eyesight and the occasional droopy eyelid.
She saw an orthopedist to see if there was a structural problem that could cause her toe walking and balance issues. She was fine.
And now we see the neurologist, mostly for the speech regression but the falling and walking into things (and the fact that she often doesn't put her hands out to catch herself, she just falls into her face) are actually what prompted the EEG and MRI that discovered the abnormal brain waves and brain cyst.
Today we added the dentist into the mix. With the boys, I started them at the dentist around 18 months but I couldn't really find anyone that would take Iz. With her heart, we either heard, nope, won't see her at all, or were given an age range of 3-5 before she could be seen. But recently I noticed her front two teeth, the ones she hits most often when she has a fall and doesn't catch herself with her hands, are discoloring and looking sort of greyish. So I needed to find a dentist who would see her and finally, last week, one took her on! We had to wait for cardiac clearance but they got her in today....and she refused to open her mouth :p
She was incredibly anxious and a little scared but the dentist was very kind and patient. She didn't get a good look at Izzy's teeth but between what little she did see and what I described, she thinks one (or many) of Iz's falls damaged the nerves and they are dying or dead already. We have a referral to a pediatric dentist that can do various types of sedation so they can relax her or knock her out and get a really good look at her teeth to confirm what is actually happening and get a treatment going. If it is dead nerves, she would most likely need a baby root canal because she's too young to take a wait and see approach. The dentist said with an older kid, they watch to make sure an infection doesn't develop and let the dead tooth come out on its own because the adult teeth are coming soon. But Iz is too far away from adult teeth and baby teeth falling out too early can mess with the adult teeth coming in properly. As much as I wish there was another explanation, I'm not sure I can sell that one to myself--I'm watching those tiny teeth get darker and darker and even before we spoke to the dentist, I thought those teeth were dying :( Poor kid can't catch a break!
Hopefully we can get into the pediatric dentist soon to confirm and figure out our next step.
We started seeing an ophthalmologist. She has astigmatism and is developing nearsightedness but it wasn't bad enough to give her glasses so young. They tested her depth perception and it seemed to be okay. She goes every six months to keep an eye on her eyesight and the occasional droopy eyelid.
She saw an orthopedist to see if there was a structural problem that could cause her toe walking and balance issues. She was fine.
And now we see the neurologist, mostly for the speech regression but the falling and walking into things (and the fact that she often doesn't put her hands out to catch herself, she just falls into her face) are actually what prompted the EEG and MRI that discovered the abnormal brain waves and brain cyst.
Today we added the dentist into the mix. With the boys, I started them at the dentist around 18 months but I couldn't really find anyone that would take Iz. With her heart, we either heard, nope, won't see her at all, or were given an age range of 3-5 before she could be seen. But recently I noticed her front two teeth, the ones she hits most often when she has a fall and doesn't catch herself with her hands, are discoloring and looking sort of greyish. So I needed to find a dentist who would see her and finally, last week, one took her on! We had to wait for cardiac clearance but they got her in today....and she refused to open her mouth :p
She was incredibly anxious and a little scared but the dentist was very kind and patient. She didn't get a good look at Izzy's teeth but between what little she did see and what I described, she thinks one (or many) of Iz's falls damaged the nerves and they are dying or dead already. We have a referral to a pediatric dentist that can do various types of sedation so they can relax her or knock her out and get a really good look at her teeth to confirm what is actually happening and get a treatment going. If it is dead nerves, she would most likely need a baby root canal because she's too young to take a wait and see approach. The dentist said with an older kid, they watch to make sure an infection doesn't develop and let the dead tooth come out on its own because the adult teeth are coming soon. But Iz is too far away from adult teeth and baby teeth falling out too early can mess with the adult teeth coming in properly. As much as I wish there was another explanation, I'm not sure I can sell that one to myself--I'm watching those tiny teeth get darker and darker and even before we spoke to the dentist, I thought those teeth were dying :( Poor kid can't catch a break!
Hopefully we can get into the pediatric dentist soon to confirm and figure out our next step.
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