Genetic Appointment

We had Arianna's annual genetic appointment this afternoon. I forgot to take my camera so there is no pictures.

This is normally a very uneventful visit. He said she is doing great and thinks this will be a great year for Arianna.

He commented on next year doing preschool but I told him how we have to wait and see at this point.

Of course he wanted to have his residents come in and meet Arianna. I guess there was just a baby diagnosed with 22q deletion syndrome the other week who these residents got to meet so he wanted them to see a healthy 2 year old with 22q. :) That sure made me feel good.

Speaking of healthy...he are not so healthy at the moment. She started with a runny nose yesterday. Oh...and get this...I took her out the day before to 3 stores so you better believe I'm feeling horrible. I was just so sick of living in fear of taking her out that I just did it and now I'm feeling bad.

She woke up with a fever of 101 and the Tylenol took care of that. But silly me forgot to give her the next dose before the doctor appointment and I took the Tylenol out the bag so by the time we were at the doctors office her temp was back up. No coughing as of yet. Her sats were a little on the low side this morning but rebounded just fine. I'll keep checking her throughout the day and especially at night. Okay...now she is trying to prove me wrong...just heard a little cough. Please pray this doesn't get worse.

Holding steady

I am so excited….no oxygen all day!!!! I hope whatever was going on inside Arianna’s body is finally on the mend.

We had our appointment with the geneticist this morning, which wasn’t much of anything. He told me he looked through her chart and commented on her recent respiratory illnesses. I told him about the hospitalization and the oxygen. He wasn’t able to shine any light on that area but told us Arianna is within normal limits and doing great! He said she is developing better than the other DiGeorge kids he’s seen, which was good to hear. We’ll see him again in 1 year than probably stop seeing him after that, unless needed.

The meeting with the speech therapist was great. The company is Talk Tools and they have a new approach to oral-motor therapy. We will be meeting twice a month with Pam, our ST, and I’ll be getting some items so I can work with Arianna on a daily basis. I’m actually very excited about their techniques. This therapist was very good with Arianna and picked up on her cues very well. They are really big on NOT giving the sippy cup but using straws instead, so good thing I haven’t been pushing the sippy cup this whole time. Arianna loves drinking from a straw anyways so I think this will work out. This company uses a hierarchical approach for oral-motor therapy, such as horns and straws.They gave us the first level straw, which Arianna does just fine with so she’ll probably advance to the next stage at our next visit. If your interested in there services you can check out there website for more information.

Other than that things are pretty calm this afternoon. I’m going to try and get some study time in before Arianna wakes up so I better get off here and get to work. Thanks for checking up on Arianna, we always appreciate your comments. It’s nice to know you all care about our baby girl.