Addison has been drooling since Saturday and her nose started running last night. She threw up during the night but it was not food, just her chocolate milk. I made her an appointment with her pediatrician this morning to go ahead and have her checked since we were at Chik Fila on Saturday and you know she gets sick everytime we are around other kids. I gave her a bath and she pooped in the bath tub. I was cleaning the mess and she pooped again. This time on the carpet in my office. And then she decided to pee on the carpet in our bedroom too. I am already rushing to make it to her 9:15 appointment in Baton Rouge and I get to my car and remember she poured out her cheese its on the drive home from Mississippi last Sunday in her car seat. Great! I clean the mess and get ready to go. Then I notice my car is on empty. So you can imagine my anxiety is full blown by all of this. I stop and get gas and she is already fussing about the ride. I am so used to driving to the hospital and her cardiologist, Gi, and surgeon are all in the building next to the hospital so I turned in there. Oops! I had to turn around and go down further to her pediatrician's office, all with 2 minutes until her appointment time. Its like nothing can be easy for us. Anyways we finally made it. I talked with the her about Addie's nightmares and she said we are doing right to just keep reassuring her it is over and she is getting better. She said if they get to bad we can take her to counciling. Addison woke up from her nap yesterday and the first thing she said was "I have a rash and it is chicken pox. I need to go to the hospital." She remembers everything. That happened over a month ago, and it turned out not to be chicken pox. We really have to watch what we say infront of her because she is so smart. I told her about Addie chewing and spitting out her food. She said she may had a food aversion and need therapy to teach her to eat. She said probably from her being used to hurting and she might have food texture issues. Dr. Alberty, her GI, had mentioned to us adults with strictures usually don't eat meat because it takes longer to digest. Addie's pediatrican is married to a GI and asked the same thing, if Addie had been put on a special diet. But so far she hasn't. We are trying to eat healthier. I bought some tofu and some ground beef substitute called veggie crumble last week. The veggie crumble was actually pretty good. We cut her food up in small, pencil eraser sized, bites but still the spits it out. And it is not just meat, sometimes crackers or mac n cheese. Dr. Guidroz said we will give her some more time to heal and if she is still doing it she will have to start therapy. She didn't prescribe antibiotics for her cold, we are going to try over the counter medicine first. I am glad I took her in though because she has had strep throat 3 times and I just wanted to make sure that wasn't what is causing her drooling. She normally vomits when she has sinus drainage too so we are sure that is what caused her to vomit last night. But on the brighter side it had been 11 days since she last vomitted.
She was being so cute last night playing doctor with me and Tre. I was working and she was saying things to Tre' like: It's not going to burn you, It will just be for a second, I am going to make you all better, I wanna take a picture of your bandaid, It's okay Addie is here, I am a doctor, It's all better, your boo boo is going to go away. She was putting guaze and bandaids all over us. She even kissed Tre's leg to make it all better.
I paid off 5 doctors yesterday, it was over $560, 3 anesthesiologist (1 from her EGD in November, 1 from her tonsils being removed in November, and already had a $190 bill for her surgery on 1/19/12, (they sure didn't waste time on billing!), Dr. McNair (GI in Ocean Springs that found the stricture first) and Dr. Scallan her ENT. Since she just saw Dr. Alberty last Monday, Dr. Guidroz today and Dr. Frierson (orthopedic) on Thrusday, that is already $120 in copays for this month and today is only the 7th! I hope she starts to forget soon and the nightmares go away. I just want to focus on getting her belly and her feet fixed before we have to start thinking about counciling and therapy.
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