ENT

ENT report -
Will try and post some pictures for later but wanted to jot this down before I forget

We took Caitlin to see an ENT last week but weren't to happy with him. He recommended Caitlin get an Adenoid x-ray and he wanted her to go back on her reflux meds the Zantac, as well as her Reglan plus some nasonex. Whenever I would ask him questions about anything he told me he just wouldn't really give me an answer so basically I walked out of there with no conclusion. The reason we are seeing an ENT is that Caitlin's gag reflux has been really bad lately. If you give her meds just a pinch to fast (which isn't fast at all but for her it is) then out comes a coughing attack which then leads to a whole bunch of vomit. She sips the water wrong same thing happens, anything can set off her gag. Which you would think of course it does but its super slow for most but fast for her. Her chewing is still not all there but we are working on it. Caitlin can't eat things like chicken or gummie stuff. Chicken just balls up and she ends up spitting it out and gummie snacks , well they just don't get chewed. She does well with some crunchy things but she still likes to pocket her food and then you have ask her for it and out it comes.
OK back to ENT reasons. Also Caitlin has been quite the snoring gal. She is pretty loud I must say and also she does breath through her mouth alot. So those are the reasons for seeing good ol ENT. OK so this ENT guy we saw I just didn't trust him with Caitlin he seemed to cocky and I tried to imagine him doing surgery on Caitlin and that was a NOT!!!!!
So end result of him I didn't put Caitlin on those meds. Until I had a full reasoning why then I wasn't going to go there.

OK so fast forward to this week. We saw a different ENT and looooved him!!! He was awesome. He went through everything in perfect detail and did more of a thorough exam on Caitlin. He checked her ears really well even used like a little air thingy to really open them up and get a clear picture. She does have fluid in her ears which seems like most of the time she does but we always thought it was because she was sick and during this winter was pretty much all the time with some kind of cold. We are also getting an Adenoid X-ray but I felt more comfortable coming from this Dr and the reasons why. Caitlin is also getting a sleep study done as well as a hearing test. See told you he was good. He just wants to do everything to see whats going on with Caitlin.
So I think her hearing is good because she does respond really well but you never know.
So if Caitlin's Adenoids are to big then we would possibly have to remove them and also we may be having to put tubes in her ears so they would drain properly. we will find out in 6 weeks which seems like forever but I am sure it will come fast. I am not sure when the sleep study is going to be because I am having to wait for them to call me to see when to schedule that.
About the Reflux meds we maybe would have to put her back on but he actually gave me reasons for that and didn't blow me off. But he said we would wait that one out for our next appointment and go from there.

Caitlin is doing really well other then that. She is happy all the time and sassy girly girl. The other day she was putting her leg on Dillon and Dillon wasn't in the mood so he kept telling Caitlin moooove , so Caitlin did and as she did she looks at Dillon and says BABY, yep she called him a baby. Super funny. Also today Dillon was bugging her this time and she told him so clearly Go Away. She speaks alot with us some of the stuff she says is so funny. Sometimes you can't always understand her but she can some how get her point across. The funny thing is she won't really talk to anybody else. When we are at public places like church or when she is at group she is kind of mute. She won't talk to much, so maybe she is shy who knows but I wish she would talk a little bit more.

On the therapy front. we did just get approved for an additional hour of speech therapy.
So now we do her global program(which works on all skills) 2 1/2 hours 3 x a week then we have an additional hour 1 x a week for just pure OT that includes feeding therapy. Now on top of that we are getting the extra hour of just speech so we should be doing super good in no time

Dillon is having fun at our new house. We just moved this last month to something a little bigger and there are tons of kids on our street so all day Dillon wants to be outside playing on his scooter and bike with his new friends.
So that's it ,that's whats going on will update when we find out more about all of our appointments and will try to post some pictures later on