Yesterday was crazy. Grayden had his 2-month well check and immunizations and I combined his appointment with Andrielle's flu shot and 3-year well check because I wanted to talk to the pediatrician about her testing scores. Grayden is doing great. He's right where he should be developmentally and his stats all look great. His head is in the 30th percentile; so nice to have a baby with a small head - lol!
Gavin was awesome and took the day off to go to our appointments with us. The doctor checked Andrielle out and doesn't think there is anything physically wrong with her, but acknowledged that she definately has learning delays. He suggested we focus on her Speech and Social skills. I want to continue working on her physical therapy stuff, but probably not as intensely as I have been, since Dr. Miller seems to think she will pick those things up on her own eventually. I'm hoping that's the case. Even though the doctor didn't seem to think there was anything wrong, I still pushed for an MRI just to make sure. So we have an MRI appointment set up for Friday morning at Utah Valley hospital. I just want to cover all our bases and rule out whatever we can.
Yesterday afternoon was Andrielle's appointment with the opthamologist (Dr. Valentine). I guess he practices in Provo, but comes to Payson once a week. Somewhere the communication was mixed up about which day he was in Payson because I was told her appointment was in Payson at 1:30 yesterday. We showed up on time only to be told that Dr. Valentine wouldn't be visiting that office that day. The receptionist was a sweetheart and called the Provo office, verifying that our appointment was supposed to be in Provo and Dr. Valentine was nice enough to still see us. We made it to our appointment about 20 minutes late. The whole appointment was miserable to say the least. Andrielle hadn't had a nap and she just didn't want to cooperate. To begin with, they had to dilate her eyes. The drops sting, so that just got her started off grumpy. Then to check out her eyes, Gavin had to hold her body on his lap, the doctor held her shoulders and head in his lap and his nurse/helper person held her head straight while the doctor checked out all the things he needed to. Andrielle screamed through the whole thing and got herself so worked up that she threw up. Really fun... But the doctor was able to get the information he needed. And good news - Andrielle has normal eyesight for a 3 year old and he didn't see any problems. So, yay, we can rule out vision problems! He does want to see her in a year for a follow up, but it's nothing we need to be worrying about.
So, now we've just got to get through the MRI on Friday. They will have to sedate her because of her age. They do have a pediatric team, so I hope that will make things a little better (for all of us!) I'm really not looking forward to it, but hopefully it will give us some answers. I'm hopeful that they get the results back quickly.
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