I just got off the phone with the nurse from our pediatricians office. She spoke with Dr. Clemens and he feels that both the swallow study and pulse oximeter is a good idea. I should hear back from the clinic today with the go ahead to schedule the swallow study. And the nurse is putting in orders for the pulse oximeter, so the company should be giving me a call today or tomorrow. I am so relived to finally be getting a pulse oximeter. I'm hoping to get the equipment before our next cardiolgist appointment so we can have our baseline sats for him.
So enough of the medical stuff. Arianna is doing great! She is walking all over the place. When Daddy gets home from work she likes to walk from couch to couch and laughs the entire time. She is so adorable, I just thank God every day for such a beautiful and healthy little girl. She is working on cutting her 3rd tooth so eating hasn't been going very well. We saw Janet, our OT, this morning and she just told us to keep up the jaw strengthening exercises. She says this is just the pattern with Arianna and to keep offering her food daily and know that some days will be better than others. I will be curious to see what her saturations are during eating.
I think that pretty much covers it for us. I have been getting more flyers out for the support group and making some really good contacts with different organizations. I have been trying to get my schooling going again. For those who don't know I'm training to become a certified medical transcriptionist. I started in Feb. 06' because I knew I needed to stay at home with Arianna. It is slow going at times with a 13 month old but I know it will pay off in the long run. Well I better get off of here since she is sleepin and this is precious study time.
Take Care & God Bless!
3 comments:
YEAH!! You'll love having the pulse ox...even when you don't really need it...it's a good peace of mind.
Glad to hear you're making good contacts with your support group. And good luck on the school work...
The swallow study...I hope it goes well. We're professionals at those by now...I think we've had 4 or 5 now. (silly) What are they looking for in the study?? Every time we have one, it shows something different. ( guess it just depends on what he swallows and how he swallows it).
Our baby dolls...oh, how they keep us hopping!
Walking, wow! Now you're going to long for the days that Arianna couldn't get into everything. Have fun and enjoy this stage. They are so cute when they start to toddle. Good luck with school. Medical transcription is great, you'll enjoy the flexibilty of being able to work from home in many cases. I'm so excited I've found a way to get notified when your blog is updated; I love hearing about what Arianna is up to.
Go to a site called http://www.blogarithm.com, and follow the instructions. All that's required to set up an account is an email address and password, no other information at all. Then you can add URLs of the blogs you want to follow, and you'll get emails when the blog is updated (or I think, once a day). After you've signed up, from 'blogger tools' in your account you can get a code for a button to add to your page that will take people straight to the blogarithm site so they can sign up if they want. I've added a button in the sidebar of my page, so you'll see whiat I mean. For me it's a great discovery, that makes up for not getting cp/cb noifications.
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