doctor's appointments On Monday, my daughter went to her regular doctor appointment. She got her last Hep A shot. She weighs 23.2 pounds, head circumference is 47cm and her height is 34 1/4 inches. Yes, she's a tall one! I'm going to wait until Tuesday to get her blood work done. It's only for blood count and lead testing. I'm going to have WIC do it because they prick her foot whereas the lab at her doctor's office takes blood from the arm. I would rather my daughter be as pain free as I can.
On Thursday, Rae had her follow up eye doctor appointment. The first thing was our appointment was at 4pm and they took us in and gave her the dilation drops probably 10-15 minutes after we arrived. Well, one eye was dilated and the other wasn't. The doctor was concerned and said she could have Horner's Syndrome. He said he might want to have her get a chest x-ray to make sure she doesn't have anything in there that's not supposed to be there. So anyway just in case they put more drops in the right eye since it didn't dilate. This time it finally did so I think Rae must've blinked the drops out of that eye. So anyway by this time it was about 5pm. The doctor finally came in to look at her eye. He said he may still have her get a chest x-ray and that it wouldn't hurt anything. Anyway, he looked in her right eye and was quiet after he was done. Darrell said uh-oh he's quiet which is usually not a good sign. The doctor wouldn't comment except for he wants to see Rae next Thursday. He wants to look in both her eyes with out the dilation drops and then go from there. He did say that we nor him has ever noticed her eyelid(s) drooping which is one of the signs. Also he asked how she sweats. He said if we notice that she sweats on one side of her face but not the other then that is also a sign. To be honest I've never noticed now that I know what to look for I'll have to keep a watch on it.
So now I'm scared to death that there's something seriously wrong with my baby. She doesn't act sick nor has she been sickly. To think my baby could have a cancerous tumor somewhere is scary as hell! That's what people with Horner's can have. That's what the doctor would be looking for if they did a CT Scan or X-ray of her lungs. If my baby does have Horner's Syndrome could it have been caused by my T.I.A. (or mini stroke) when I was pregnant with her? Please anyone that reads this say a prayer for my daughter. I hope that she's not sick or anything. My husband had noticed her eyes dilating differently when she was only a couple of months old. When she was 8 months old we had her eyes checked and at that time the doctor (whom we no longer go to due to insurance purposes) just wanted to keep an eye on it. Well, the same thing happened with this other doctor but now he seems more concerned.
If any of you want to read up on Horner's Syndrome you can do so here:
new update Our house still hasn't sold yet. We've only had 3 viewers. RaeAnna is learning new words every couple of days. Her newest word is glue. I haven't heard her say it but Darrell did. She learned how to suck her belly in and let it out. I have no idea where she learned that from lol. A couple of days ago we took RaeAnna to a get together and they had a moon walk. She was a wild girl in that thing lol. She was jumping and throwing herself all over. It was so funny! RaeAnna likes to say ewie (like gross or yuck), dup (for cup), bup (for up), and dackie (for jackie our dog). Whenever we see other kids her size she likes to go up and give them a kiss. At the school yard, there's a frog that you can move back and forth on. She can climb on and off of it by herself. I remember when I worked in the toddler room some kids RaeAnna's age couldn't do that. I do know though that there are a lot of things other kids her age can do that she can't yet. We're trying to limit the amount of time we give Rae her nonny (pacifier) because she's been chewing them and a couple of them had little holes. Also Rae had a WIC appointment and we had them check her medicaid card to see if she still had medical because we had received a paper from welfare saying she was going to lose her medical. So we sent in the paperwork for it on time and in person and you know them unorganized people lost it and so Rae has been without medical since March 25th. On May 8th, I go to fill out insurance papers through WIC to get Rae back on medical. The welfare office is a piece of crap and don't help you! Anyway that's all that's going on.
2008-03-08
My sweet girl RaeAnna finally got her last eye tooth in today. I knew she was teething because her poop is burning her butt. Sometime within the next 4-5 months we will be moving to Arizona. Even if there were jobs here my dad doesn't want any dogs living in his house. We could never get rid of Jackie or Spunky because we raised them from puppies. Darrell will have a job down in Arizona as either a prison guard or a supervisor. That's all that's going on here.
2008-02-17
more teeth and changes RaeAnna got another tooth. It's the left eye tooth otherwise known as the canine tooth. So I was looking at pictures of Rae from around Christmas time. I can't believe how much her hair has grown since then and how babyish she looked then. It's just amazing. She's starting to say more words. Just today she said baby doll, cookie and thank-you. On a sad note, I know that we'll be moving we just don't know where yet. We could move to my parents house which would be easier since they're only 30 minutes away and we get along with them. They would fix up the family room so Darrell and I could live in there and it would be like a little apartment. Rae would have her own room, Logan would have his own room and my brother would stay in my old room. I don't know how well Logan would take Rae moving into his room and him moving into my brother's room though. The only bad thing is here in Michigan jobs are scarce and if you get one it's usually a crap job with hardly any pay. Darrell's working but unfortunately he only gets work 2 days a week lately. Darrell and I were thinking he could go back to school to learn a different trade. Also we would have to rent a storage unit. Our other option, is to move in with Darrell's parents down in Arizona. Darrell doesn't get along with his dad and I don't feel comfortable around them. Rae doesn't even know them. The last time she saw her grandma Pam was when she was 1 month old. The last time she saw her grandpa Darrell she was 8 months old. The other bad thing is that Darrell and I would have to share a room with Rae and our 3 dogs. Darrell can still go to school to learn a trade but where his parents live it's 45 minutes away from any work places, hospitals etc. How great would that be if we had to rush Rae to the hospital for something and it's 45 minutes away? OMG the thought just scares me! The good thing about moving down there would be that there are jobs. I'm absolutely devastated and depressed thinking that we might have to move in with his parents. Either way wherever we move we're going to hurt someone. My parents don't want to see us leave but on the other hand Darrell's parents really want us to live down there and so it would hurt them if we move in with my parents. If we move in with Darrell's parents, Darrell and I won't be happy and I don't know how Rae is going to be living in a house with people, 5 dogs, and 2 cats that she doesn't even know. Let alone I don't know how Rae is going to be living in a state altogether different from anything she's ever known. What are we going to do??? We have some huge decisions to make coming up very soon.
