Summer is over, school is in full swing, and life is BUSY! Between Josh and myself in school, Josh working, guard drills, an active toddler, two 3 month olds, holidays/birthdays, and family events it gets a little crazy! Now that fall is creeping around the corner things are only getting more hectic.
A recap of August:
-School started and I got first rotation OB clinicals (YAY!!!)
-Hunter got a viral URI and shared...with both girls and me, which resulted in I believe four doctors visits!
-We finally got a Dx for Avery's respiratory condition...Laryngomalacia. Dr. Cooley saw her for her 2mo appt and thought she had tracheomalacia. After some pretty scary breathing events we decided to have her see an ENT to determine if there was something (like Asthma) in addition to her tracheomalacia. Well, not sugar-coating the PA that saw her at the ENT office was an ass. He was over an hour and a half late to the appointment and did not even do a physical assessment on her!! He just said, yep, it's tracheomalacia and she will grow out of it. Then when presented with her additional symptoms he cut Josh off and said, she's fine (mind you he never looked at her or did any examination), don't come back unless she is turning blue. Needless to say, I wasn't very happy with that. I obviously insisted that they actually evaluate her, so back to the ENT. Second time around we got a different diagnosis (although very similar) he said that she has Laryngomalacia and that in his past 20+ years of practice he had never actually seen a case of Tracheomalacia. There is no needed treatment and (like I already knew) she will grow out of it by 18-24 months old. The ENT said she was too young to determine if there was another competing respiratory issue like allergies or asthma making her worse at times. By worse I am not describing how positional changes can worsen the sound, I'm meaning rapid respirations, stridor, and retractions. Not fun. Hopefully these subside soon!
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