It has been a bit since my last post and my oh my have we been through the ringer, well at least Keagan has.
When we left last we were heading to IA City for an appointment with her OTO doctor. That appt went good and they decided that they were going to go ahead and place a tube in her good ear and take her adenoids out. While she was under they were going to take a good look into her other ear and see what they could see. This was great news, I felt like maybe we would get somewhere from this, oh was I wrong.
Not even a week later we headed back to IA City for surgery. She looked so cute in her little surgery scrubs and was in good spirits when we went in for her procedure. Words can not describe the feeling of holding your child as they become completely limp and pale from anthesia and as I walked out the OR tears just started falling. I sat in the waiting room I was overcome with emotion and could barely talk. After what seemed like FOREVER they came and got her dad and I. We sat in recovery and waited and waited and waited some more... finally the nurse came and asked me to come with her... again words can not describe the emotions that flooded my body. She took me into the PACU and told me they were having some issues getting Keagan to stablize her pulse/ox and they thought if maybe I held her a bit she would calm down. They told me that they had to suck mucas from her left lung but that it wasn't serious and she should be ok as soon as she calmed down. This was not the case... after a few hours and different meds and lots of tears she was admitted to the hospital. We only stayed one night but it was a long one... throughout that after noon she slept a lot, she did stablize but was not eating well. She did great through the night so we brought her home the next day. We went straight to my moms because we thought that would be the best place since we needed to keep her healthy... this again was not the case as my poor mom go the flu in the middle of the night.
We ended up coming back to our house in Bettendorf and spending the weekend there. I knew she was going to have some rough days but I was not prepared for what was in store for me. She had a really hard time and was super fussy, not sleeping or eating well... it took a toll on us both. Finally after a week after surgery I decided to call her peds doc and see if they could look at her... my poor girl had influenza a & b, RSV and puenomia... thankfully they didn't admit her because I could still get her to take fluids but no daycare for another week and breathing treatments 4 times a day... after a week of this we took her back to the doc for a check up and she was still having trouble with her lungs so they gave her a steroid and said keep her home for 24 more hours then she can go back to daycare...
Not one day back to day care and we are on our way to start our day and some high schooler wasn't paying attention and hit us from behind so hard that it threw us into the car in front of us.. what a tramatic experience... All I could think about is if something was wrong with her... nope she was all good, I had some minor whiplash... the car on the other hand had about 4000 worth of damage...ick.. luckily she was on her parents insurance and it took care of everything... Keagan got a a sweet new carseat out of the deal also... sooo...
After another semi-difficult week we returned to the doc again to make sure the steriods had done what they needed to do... finally they had. After that appointment we were off to IA City to meet with the plastic surgeon and to make sure her tube had settled into place and the place where her adenoids were had healed... Thank goodness these appointments all went well!
The plastic surgeon was very informative and very helpful... he will be monitoring her every 2 years just to see her progress... any surgery he may do won't be until she is at least 7 or 8 because she has to be big enough to take cartiledge from her ribs. He also was very positive that if some day she doesn't want to have a crooked smile, he can help her with that also... the thought of my babycakes losing her crooked smile will be bittersweet... I can not tell you how many days that crooked has made my life so much better... .
Its hard to believe she will be 9 months in 10 days... time really does fly... I am looking forward to a summer with less doctor appts and celebrating her first birthday...
We have a nuerology appointment on Wednesday and we are getting her immune system tested at the end of April.
She is currently 17.2lbs and 28"... someday she will grow, for now I will enjoy her little self!
Hope everyone enjoys Easter with their family and friends.. we are very much looking forward to it... we are also looking forward to family visiting next weekend! We miss Sarah and Bernard!
