It's hard to know what to do...
Dear Nicky,
Doctors give conflicting advice. Therapists give conflicting advice. Experts are experts about nothing. All we can do is collect as much data from as many different places and hope we can process it the best we can ourselves. It's pretty scary. Are we waiting too long, are we doing something too soon? You've been under the knife twice already, and you're not even a year old. I don't know about this ENT. He seems knowledgeable and capable; he did get a huge wad of wax out of your ears yesterday, but maybe he's not as aggressive as he should be, or as we would like. Maybe we should ask Dr. Solo, who's been your friend before you were even born. He steered us to Dr. Q and Doc Shlushie, and they were both great.
In other news, today you for the first time that I've seen raised your arms to me in an unmistakable pick me up gesture. We think you're also getting closer and closer to crawling. Also, I haven't seen any strabismus in a couple days, and that panting you used to do constantly when you were younger is gone. Mom and I were talking about it the other day, how we'd completely forgotten about it. This afternoon I went and got some prints made of everyday stuff familiar to you as part of Shelby's suggestion for DI. There was a strong wind chill, so you stayed in today. Maybe tomorrow will be better and we can try this new lightweight umbrella stroller we got at--where else--Target. It's nothing fancy, but it should be good. We'll see. We'll see about a lot of things.
Love,
Dad
Doctors give conflicting advice. Therapists give conflicting advice. Experts are experts about nothing. All we can do is collect as much data from as many different places and hope we can process it the best we can ourselves. It's pretty scary. Are we waiting too long, are we doing something too soon? You've been under the knife twice already, and you're not even a year old. I don't know about this ENT. He seems knowledgeable and capable; he did get a huge wad of wax out of your ears yesterday, but maybe he's not as aggressive as he should be, or as we would like. Maybe we should ask Dr. Solo, who's been your friend before you were even born. He steered us to Dr. Q and Doc Shlushie, and they were both great.
In other news, today you for the first time that I've seen raised your arms to me in an unmistakable pick me up gesture. We think you're also getting closer and closer to crawling. Also, I haven't seen any strabismus in a couple days, and that panting you used to do constantly when you were younger is gone. Mom and I were talking about it the other day, how we'd completely forgotten about it. This afternoon I went and got some prints made of everyday stuff familiar to you as part of Shelby's suggestion for DI. There was a strong wind chill, so you stayed in today. Maybe tomorrow will be better and we can try this new lightweight umbrella stroller we got at--where else--Target. It's nothing fancy, but it should be good. We'll see. We'll see about a lot of things.
Love,
Dad
posted by The Walkin Dude at 9:36 PM
1 Comments:
It sounds like you have solved the mystery. I have learned that often times the doctors, EI service workers, and others involved in my little Miss E's life are often highly opinionated. Sometimes, no most times, you have to wade through vast amount of data picking out the details that are most important to you. Not everyone will be correct all the time, and some will be completely off base and incorrect.
As for the ears and the wax (we deal with this to on a regular basis), we saw an ENT about a month and a half ago who provided an equally unimpressive review of my girl.
He wanted to put her through a triple scope surgery just to get to know her-oh my does that sound scary. Since I was told after her last surgery that there should be nothing done as an elective procedure, we have scheduled an appointment with another new ENT at yet another Children's hospital.
I am still keeping up with the daily adventures of Nicky, he is quite the boy these days, my is he growing up :)
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