Pediatrician Appointment January 10th 2020

Last month, I received a call from Vincent’s pediatrician office. They had receive a report of Vincent’s ENT appointment and want to see him as soon as they can.  Since the holidays where the week after, they scheduled the appointment for last Friday (January 10^th 2020). I didn’t know what to expect. I was a little worried.  Vincent’s appointment was full of information and some I wasn’t ready to get. Since I stay home with him I feel it’s partly my fault if something is wrong. 

Let’s start by the basic information, Vincent weighs 32 lbs and 10 oz. He is 87.8 cm tall. He is almost at 3 feet. He is sticking to the same percentile as he has been since he was 6 months old. Vincent is in the 95^th.  The nurse started playing with him while she took his blood pressure. She was afraid he would be scared, but I knew different. When she was done he asked if she could do it again.

As for the pediatrician, she advised me that Vincent still has a lot of fluids in his ears. It’s starting to affect other parts of his life. As for walking, the ears are preventing him from being solid on his feet. They make him walk like a drunk person at times. The thing I wasn’t ready to hear is that Vincent is behind in his speech. The pediatrician advised me that she truly believes that it’s because he can’t hear clearly.  Vincent does talk a lot, but he repeats everything.  Since the appointment, Pat and I have noticed it. If you want to experience what Vincent hears, stick you head under water or block your ears with your hands.  He can hear some sounds perfectly when others he has a hard time.  The pediatrician is contacting his ENT to see if we can get in to an appointment sooner. She wants him to get tubes and his adenoids checked out as soon as possible. We want to get this resolved in the next year before it’s too late.  On Friday of this week (in 3 days), I will be filing out an intake form for first words. We will be put on a waiting list for them to get Vincent evaluated. I was advised that the waiting list for this program fluctuates a lot. Due to us going to Florida next week, we will fill out the intake form the day before we leave. His pediatrician is pretty sure that they will call us after our trip.

As for Vincent’s constipation issue, I advised the pediatrician that he is still taking restorolax every 2 days. If I try to push it every 3 days he becomes clogged again. She told me to give it to him every day or every 2 days and not to push it. It will not affect his body if we keep giving it to him every day. It helps him more than hurt his body.

Holidays 2019

Since having Vincent, the holidays are very chaotic, but fun.  Here is a blog about what we did in the holidays.

Christmas Eve Pat worked until 11:30am. We then headed out to buy the food we need for Vincent’s birthday party on the 26^th. After running all our errands, we headed to my dad’s for supper. It was a fun afternoon and evening. I played card games with my grandma, Vincent played with Chika and his cousin Alycia. He got an ice cream cart as a gift from them.  After dinner around 6:30pm, Vincent was really tired. He requested to go home to bed. We decided to bring him home and go to bed as he asked.

On Christmas Day morning, Vincent was awake and ready to open gifts at 5:30am. It took him approximately 1.5 hours to open all of them as he wanted to play with them. He did really good when it came to unwrapping. He didn’t need much help.  After all the opening of the gifts, we all took a nap as we had a dinner in Kanata at my aunts and uncles. Vincent loved playing with his older cousins Jeremy and Rose Anne. He got a lot of their one and one attention in which made him feel special. Around 7pm that evening is when he requested to go to bed. Therefore, we left and came back home.

Boxing Day morning was fun. We went to eat breakfast as a family at Perkins. We chose Perkins because all other restaurants were still closed.  In the afternoon, there was a dozen people that came for his birthday party. Vincent was very well loved and spoiled.

The day after his birthday, the stomach bug hit our house. We all got it. Vincent felt better by evening ,but had a hard time getting over the virus which caused up to spend New Years Eve in the hospital ER. They provided him with IV fluids and made sure his blood-work was normal. We were released around 1am and then came home to bed. On New Years Day we just relaxed and watched TV.

Here are some pictures of the holidays. There are more on my facebook page.