7 Quick Takes: Health Edition

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I know I keep going on about the sickness at our house (it has gotten past the point of ridiculous, really), so I thought I might just devote a whole post to it, particularly as we've had some illuminating moments lately in that department.

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Piglet and Birdie saw an ENT last week while my mom was here (her being here was why I didn't post last week).  Turns out that the reason Piglet has had a croupy chronic cough Every.Day for the last three plus years is that his adenoids are blocking his airway 70%.  Oh, and he needs ear tubes, and can't hear very well as a result of poor drainage.  To add insult to injury, he developed a nasty sinus infection this week and is, as our pediatrician put it, pus to the eyeballs.  He started an antibiotic yesterday, and hopefully will be well enough to have his adenoids out and ear tubes put in on February 7.  I'm hoping that the surgery will fix a whole host of related problems, now that we actually know what is going on with him.  Oh, and pulmonology at CHOP completely missed the boat on this one three years ago, blowing us off with a bogus diagnosis of reflux. Never mind that he didn't fit the profile of a reflux-baby or toddler, had none of the other symptoms, didn't respond to reflux meds, or any other asthma/allergy meds we tried. Not that I'm bitter or anything.

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Birdie has larynomalacia, which is floppy larynx syndrome. She just has to outgrow it, which means she is going to sound like Darth Vader for some time yet. It also has lovely side effect of pretty severe reflux, which we suspected, but since she didn't respond to the first two meds we tried, we thought we must have been mistaken.  Guess not.  She is back on two different reflux meds, and her night sleep has improved, although she is still prone to random fits of inconsolable crying during the day.  

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I have a stress fracture in my right foot, probably from all the double baby wearing and carrying around Boo, who is getting close to 30 pounds.  So my half-hearted plan to maybe start working out again in February in on indefinite hold until it heals.  Since it has been a month or so already, I'm not extremely hopeful.  On the upside, I did get a pair of roller skates for my namesday, so at least I'll have something fun to do when my foot is better!

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Boo continues to torture us nightly with random wakings for no reason.  He was such a good sleeper until he turned a year, and now sleeps more like a newborn.  It is extremely annoying, especially since his naps are also hit and miss.  Other than garden-variety colds, however, he is fine.

Update: hours after I wrote this post, Boo got a stomach virus and spent much of the night throwing up.
According to our pediatrician, it lasts three days, has diarrhea to boot, and will probably go around to the whole family.  Oh yay.

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My husband and I have been trading a sore-throat-sinus-infection-cold thing for the last several months.  He has it, I have it, he has it, one of the kids gets it, you get the idea.  We're both exhausted and beginning to wonder if this is all some kind of twisted penance for transgressions.

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Okay, so not health related, but I wanted to share something pretty anyway.  I made this two weeks ago just to make something easy.  I like how it turned out.  It is CASEd from another stamper, but I made paper buttons instead of using real ones so it would mail more cheaply.