More surgeries .......

We've been so busy this summer!  Mostly trying to stay cool.  I think we're all ready for fall around here.  Luke starts preschool right after Labor Day and I think he's going to love it!!!

This coming Monday, Jacinda is having an endoscopy and colonoscopy.  Because of her age, she will need general anesthesia.  The doctor says it should only take about an hour.  She's having it done because she continues to have horrible diarrhea.  All her tests so far have been normal.  Her doc is sure these tests will also be normal.  I sure hope so, but the diarrhea is truly awful.  Everywhere we go, we carry 2 changes of clothes and she often needs it.  So we'll see what happens.

In even bigger news, we're waiting on a phone call with the surgery date for her tongue, nose, and palate.  Back in May, her surgeon, Dr. Inciong, said that he wanted to wait at least 6 months, maybe a year, and then do some more work on her nose.  Her left nostril is tiny and he had opened it up a bit in February, but it had collapsed again.  So he said we should wait a while until she gets bigger and then re-evaluate.

A few months ago, she started having nosebleeds on that side.  They aren't too bad, but just enough to make a mess.  So last week, I called and made an appointment to see Dr. Inciong.

Around the same time last week, I was practicing words with her.  I realized that she wasn't lifting her tongue up to make certain sounds, like "l" and "t".  For a while now, I've been frustrated that she hasn't been making much progress with her speech.  We and her speech therapist have been chalking it up to being 2 and being very stubborn.  But I started wondering if she was "tongue-tied."  None of her doctors or speech therapists had ever mentioned that this was a possibility.

So I asked Dr. Inciong today to take a look, since we were there anyway.  He said she is definitely "tongue-tied".  It's where the little piece of tissue under the tongue is too small and doesn't allow you to lift your tongue up or stick your tongue out.  For some people, it's not severe and they are able to compensate.  For Jacinda, it's definitely interfering with her speech, so Dr. Inciong says we should take care of it immediately.  Unfortunately, because of her age, we're looking at general anesthesia again.

He said that while he's in there, he'll take a look at her nose and very possibly go ahead and try to make that left nostril larger again.  He thinks the insides of her nostril are touching and "sticking" together and that's what's causing the nosebleeds.  He also will take a look at her palate and make sure there are no holes in it.

Hopefully this surgery will be soon!  I'm expecting the nurse to call either tomorrow or early next week.