Mckenzie is doing well and is recovered! Most definitely back to her spunky personality! :) She had a post-op follow-up today and her surgeon was very pleased with how well she did. I just pray she doesn't get sick too much this winter. She has another follow-up in 3 months.
She returned to daycare/pre-school last week. She had another explosion in her vocabulary, she is well over 100+ words right now. She knows what things mean that I would not expect her to know. Seeing her blossom just validates what a wonderful choice in child care we have made. She attends a daycare center that has had curriculum since about 1. She loves it, they do projects and have a rigid schedule for the day.
She has been doing excellent with potty training too. I thought for sure that would have regressed since her interest peaked right before she had her surgery. She has been doing really well and sure lets you know when she needs to go, and you better be paying attention!
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Update
Mckenzie did great during her recovery.
She was a lot better than I thought she would be. The doctor said that kids are either act like nothing happened or their a wreck. Thankfully she was good overall. She did well taking her pain mess for the first 5 days and then it turned into a fight to get her to take her meds.
My mom flew out the week after and watched her whil ei was working, Mckenzie was doing really well 1 week post-op. By last Friday she was doing good, overall ate well throughout her recovery, getting fluids in her was hit and miss but good overall.
She returned to daycare yesterday and had a great day :)
Surprisingly during her recovery she wanted to use the potty all the time. Before she had surgery she was doing great in the potty. Now she is all about going to the potty and even tells us when she needs to go. Not quite ready for big girl underwear yet but it's great to see her be able to know when she needs to go and tells us :)
She was a lot better than I thought she would be. The doctor said that kids are either act like nothing happened or their a wreck. Thankfully she was good overall. She did well taking her pain mess for the first 5 days and then it turned into a fight to get her to take her meds.
My mom flew out the week after and watched her whil ei was working, Mckenzie was doing really well 1 week post-op. By last Friday she was doing good, overall ate well throughout her recovery, getting fluids in her was hit and miss but good overall.
She returned to daycare yesterday and had a great day :)
Surprisingly during her recovery she wanted to use the potty all the time. Before she had surgery she was doing great in the potty. Now she is all about going to the potty and even tells us when she needs to go. Not quite ready for big girl underwear yet but it's great to see her be able to know when she needs to go and tells us :)
Monday, August 13, 2012
Surgery day
We arrived at the hospital at 8:30am, she went back to surgery around 10:30am. We were starring by then because we hadn't eaten since Mckenzie wasn't allowed to eat this morning. The nurse suggested we got get something to eat but to come back to the surgery waiting area that way we were there when her surgeon came out.
Once her doctor came out, she told us everything went well. She did the brochoscopy and found laryngomalacoa and cleft which they repaired. They removed her tonsils and a portion of the adenoids, clipped her tongue tie, and replaced her ear tubes. She's doing much better than I thought.
They told us some kids want to eat regular food which I was surprised because I had my tonsils removed, granted as an adult which they say is worse, I know I wanted nothing to eat for a good 7-10 days! Her doctor said to order her favorite food off the menu. She has eat several pieces of cheese pizza and applesauce.
She has to be taking in fluids good before she can go home, she did good today but tomorrow will have to drink more or they won't discharge her obviously so she doesn't become dehydrated.
I'm praying for a speedy recovery for her. My mom flies out on Saturday and will watch her next week since she'll be home for 2 weeks recovering. Jeremy's grandparents are coming on Thursday for a visit
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Once her doctor came out, she told us everything went well. She did the brochoscopy and found laryngomalacoa and cleft which they repaired. They removed her tonsils and a portion of the adenoids, clipped her tongue tie, and replaced her ear tubes. She's doing much better than I thought.
They told us some kids want to eat regular food which I was surprised because I had my tonsils removed, granted as an adult which they say is worse, I know I wanted nothing to eat for a good 7-10 days! Her doctor said to order her favorite food off the menu. She has eat several pieces of cheese pizza and applesauce.
She has to be taking in fluids good before she can go home, she did good today but tomorrow will have to drink more or they won't discharge her obviously so she doesn't become dehydrated.
I'm praying for a speedy recovery for her. My mom flies out on Saturday and will watch her next week since she'll be home for 2 weeks recovering. Jeremy's grandparents are coming on Thursday for a visit
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Mckenzie's surgery
Weve decided to push her surgery out until August 13th. Initially we were told it'd be ale a week recovery. I found out about a week ago it's more like 2. Between days 7-10 potato there is a risk for bleeding so it'll be best to have her at home then.
We were just in Portland for a good friends wedding last week. I went to Phoenix for work this week to train on a new computer system, so it would have put me out of the office for 3 weeks straight, which would have been awful timing. I talked to her doctor and she said it was fine to push it out 2 weeks. After talking with my mom she said she would come stay with us the second week and watch Mckenzie, so it's going to work out much better.
Mckenzie and I are flying back to Portland this weekend ad I need to be in my office when we go live with our new system. Its looking like it'll make my job easier and more efficient to do, which I'm definitely looking forward to, of course after I get the hang of things!
We were just in Portland for a good friends wedding last week. I went to Phoenix for work this week to train on a new computer system, so it would have put me out of the office for 3 weeks straight, which would have been awful timing. I talked to her doctor and she said it was fine to push it out 2 weeks. After talking with my mom she said she would come stay with us the second week and watch Mckenzie, so it's going to work out much better.
Mckenzie and I are flying back to Portland this weekend ad I need to be in my office when we go live with our new system. Its looking like it'll make my job easier and more efficient to do, which I'm definitely looking forward to, of course after I get the hang of things!
Monday, July 9, 2012
Working on my fitness!
I'm proud to say that I was able to breastfeed Mckenzie until she was about 18 months old. I made it to a year and with all the illnesses she had her peditrician strongly suggested I try to breastfeed through the Winter to get those extra antibodies for her to help fight off the sicknesses. So I was hoping to make it through March, around Februrary ish I stopped pumping regularly and she wasn't a big fan of having whole milk mixed with breast milk. I ended up quitting cold turkey, because she would come up to me and say "Nurse." The weaning went very well and actually wasn't even painful as I had anticipated.
With breastfeeding I really didn't have to work too much at all to loose the baby weight after having Mckenzie. I really didn't work out and was back into my regular clothes pretty quickly, which I think was from breastfeeding.
However, once I stopped breastfeeding I've noticed over the last 6 ish weeks my pants are getting tight on me. I decided I was not going to buy bigger pants and needed to get back into the gym! I had been contemplating which gym would be best to sign up at. I checked out the local YMCA and Anytime Fitness. YMCA was great but just far enough that it would be hard to get a decent amount of time to actually work out.
Before moving to Idaho, I had been working out regularly during my lunch hour which worked great. Work has been extremely stressful for a while now, which could be a contributing factor to not fitting in my clothes too well. I haven't really been taking much of a lunch break lately just trying to keep up. I need to be taking a lunch break, so I decided today that I will give my job 110% but need to start taking a lunch break and am going to start working out during lunch time again! I need to! It'll probably be a great stress reliever as well.
I'm going to make small goals and be realistic....
My small goal is to lose 8 pounds (About 2 pounds per week) within 1 month (August 9, 2012). My membership is with anytime fitness and there is one that barely a mile from the house!
I'd like to lose about 18 pounds right now. One I hit that then I can re-evaluate and decide what my next goal is!
I'm looking forward to getting back into the gym for me :)
Wish me luck! :)
With breastfeeding I really didn't have to work too much at all to loose the baby weight after having Mckenzie. I really didn't work out and was back into my regular clothes pretty quickly, which I think was from breastfeeding.
However, once I stopped breastfeeding I've noticed over the last 6 ish weeks my pants are getting tight on me. I decided I was not going to buy bigger pants and needed to get back into the gym! I had been contemplating which gym would be best to sign up at. I checked out the local YMCA and Anytime Fitness. YMCA was great but just far enough that it would be hard to get a decent amount of time to actually work out.
Before moving to Idaho, I had been working out regularly during my lunch hour which worked great. Work has been extremely stressful for a while now, which could be a contributing factor to not fitting in my clothes too well. I haven't really been taking much of a lunch break lately just trying to keep up. I need to be taking a lunch break, so I decided today that I will give my job 110% but need to start taking a lunch break and am going to start working out during lunch time again! I need to! It'll probably be a great stress reliever as well.
I'm going to make small goals and be realistic....
My small goal is to lose 8 pounds (About 2 pounds per week) within 1 month (August 9, 2012). My membership is with anytime fitness and there is one that barely a mile from the house!
I'd like to lose about 18 pounds right now. One I hit that then I can re-evaluate and decide what my next goal is!
I'm looking forward to getting back into the gym for me :)
Wish me luck! :)
Friday, June 29, 2012
Mckenzie update
Mckenzie has been sick way more often than we'd like. Last summer it was recurrent ear infections, she had tubes placed in her ears last September. Ear infections have been a thing of the past, last winter she started getting croup and other nasty illnesses very often. I think we're at 5-6 bouts of croup between winter and now. Each one has required an ER room visit, and one she had stridor (trouble breathing like she'd just ran a marathon) with croup that required her to be transported via ambulance....so scary and of course Jeremy happened to be out of town. Every time we'd go to the ER shed get a dose of oral steroids and shed be good, but typically with in a few days shed have a cold, bronchiolitis, and twice shes had pneumonia.
Doctors thought part of it was due to her being in daycare, kids in day care are sick something like 8-12 yikes per year...yeah basically once a month! Finally after this last bout of croup she kept making a noise as if you would if you were excited or startled. I took her back to her pediatrician and asked her thoughts, she agreed the number of times of her getting croup was too many. We were referred to an ENT doctor, when I called she was booked until the end of September! Her pediatrician made a call and had us worked into the schedule within a week.
We had a consult with her ENT yesterday. Her pediatrician said she wondered if part of Mckenzie's airway was narrowed slightly, which in small children a bit of narrowing is a lot. She said the ENT would probably want to do a bronchoscopy (camera down her airway). We went in and they decided To put a small tube into her nasal passage which they could see into the throat, do they put numbing drops in her nose which of course she was NOT happy about. They told us she would hate it but would take hour 45 seconds to a minute. She was wrapped up and Jeremy held her against him. They went in and the doctor let me take a peek because her tonsils which were really enlarged and inflamed. She wss given her first lolly pop after that and was a happy camper again. So the doctor recommended we do the bronchoscopy which she has to be under for, check the airway to ensure it looks good which she thinks will be fine but wants to rule that out. Her recommendation was to plan to have her tonsils and adenoids removed. The quick peek I had definitely showed her tonsils being inflamed and enlarged. She really thinks the tonsils are the culprit, which makes total sense for the recurrent croup and constant sickness. She recommended removing the adenoids because the fluid drains to the ears, and with her history of recurrent ear infections she thought we should remove them then. The other thing she noticed is that she is also tongue tied enought that she needs to have that clipped which they will do at the same time. Poor baby, she will need to stay at least one night in the hospital, they said as long as she's eating okay and drinking enough fluids then she can go home. I guess most kids want and can eat right after surgery.
She said kids bounce back much quicker with the tonsillectomy and adenoids than adults. I actually had my tonsils removed in college because of constant illness, once I got the, removed I wasn't getting sick hardly at all.
I'm hopefully and optimistic that this will take care of things so she doesn't keep getting sick so often, a little cold I can handle. She's such a trooper when she is sick, but I'm looking forward to her getting healthy!
Thankfully ER have really good insurance through Jeremy's work, we've met her out of pocket max with our health insurance between multiple ER visits and doctor visits, so it'll all be covered with no more out of pocket.
Her surgery is scheduled for Monday, July 30, 2012. She will be out of daycare for about a week. I'm so thankful to get a ton of vacation time, I'm planning to take the week off but may do part of the week and Jeremy the second half, since I'm still working from home. It's difficult to work at home because for whatever reason the noise travels even though My office door is closed, so tentatively I'm going to take the full week off.
Thats what's going on in our household, we have a busy July coming up, a good friend is getting married in Washington and Jeremy is in the wedding.
Keeps some good thoughts and prayers for Mckenzie that she will have a safe and successful surgery that gets her back on the path to being healthy.
Doctors thought part of it was due to her being in daycare, kids in day care are sick something like 8-12 yikes per year...yeah basically once a month! Finally after this last bout of croup she kept making a noise as if you would if you were excited or startled. I took her back to her pediatrician and asked her thoughts, she agreed the number of times of her getting croup was too many. We were referred to an ENT doctor, when I called she was booked until the end of September! Her pediatrician made a call and had us worked into the schedule within a week.
We had a consult with her ENT yesterday. Her pediatrician said she wondered if part of Mckenzie's airway was narrowed slightly, which in small children a bit of narrowing is a lot. She said the ENT would probably want to do a bronchoscopy (camera down her airway). We went in and they decided To put a small tube into her nasal passage which they could see into the throat, do they put numbing drops in her nose which of course she was NOT happy about. They told us she would hate it but would take hour 45 seconds to a minute. She was wrapped up and Jeremy held her against him. They went in and the doctor let me take a peek because her tonsils which were really enlarged and inflamed. She wss given her first lolly pop after that and was a happy camper again. So the doctor recommended we do the bronchoscopy which she has to be under for, check the airway to ensure it looks good which she thinks will be fine but wants to rule that out. Her recommendation was to plan to have her tonsils and adenoids removed. The quick peek I had definitely showed her tonsils being inflamed and enlarged. She really thinks the tonsils are the culprit, which makes total sense for the recurrent croup and constant sickness. She recommended removing the adenoids because the fluid drains to the ears, and with her history of recurrent ear infections she thought we should remove them then. The other thing she noticed is that she is also tongue tied enought that she needs to have that clipped which they will do at the same time. Poor baby, she will need to stay at least one night in the hospital, they said as long as she's eating okay and drinking enough fluids then she can go home. I guess most kids want and can eat right after surgery.
She said kids bounce back much quicker with the tonsillectomy and adenoids than adults. I actually had my tonsils removed in college because of constant illness, once I got the, removed I wasn't getting sick hardly at all.
I'm hopefully and optimistic that this will take care of things so she doesn't keep getting sick so often, a little cold I can handle. She's such a trooper when she is sick, but I'm looking forward to her getting healthy!
Thankfully ER have really good insurance through Jeremy's work, we've met her out of pocket max with our health insurance between multiple ER visits and doctor visits, so it'll all be covered with no more out of pocket.
Her surgery is scheduled for Monday, July 30, 2012. She will be out of daycare for about a week. I'm so thankful to get a ton of vacation time, I'm planning to take the week off but may do part of the week and Jeremy the second half, since I'm still working from home. It's difficult to work at home because for whatever reason the noise travels even though My office door is closed, so tentatively I'm going to take the full week off.
Thats what's going on in our household, we have a busy July coming up, a good friend is getting married in Washington and Jeremy is in the wedding.
Keeps some good thoughts and prayers for Mckenzie that she will have a safe and successful surgery that gets her back on the path to being healthy.
Friday, June 8, 2012
18 Months!
I'm so behind on blogging but wanted to post her stats at her appointment a few weeks ago
(as of 5/18/12)
27 lbs 11 oz (90% weight)
32 7/8" (88% height)
48 cm (90% head circumference)
She is doing really well, unfortunately still seems to pick up illnesses frequently. She seems to get croup often that always requires a ER visit of course in the middle of the night! Her pediatrician is not too concerned with her getting sick frequently because she is in daycare. She said children in daycare are sick between 8-14 times per year, it seems like she's sick almost once a month so I guess she is within the norm still. She said she isn't concerned with any type of auto-immune disorder because her height and weight are great. She said kids either will get sick a lot now or when they get into kindergarten. Thank goodness for a lot of time off from work!
She has 16 teeth now, all 4 molars came in at the same time and pretty quickly, she was cranky throughout it a bit but much better then I expected her to be! All four cuspids came through pretty close together too - and are about 3/4 the way in, again a trooper! The only teeth left are her second molars which can arrive between 2-3.
Her vocabulary has increased SIGNIFICANTLY over the last 2-3 ish months!
Some of the words I can think of are:
- Mama
- Dada
- Bentley (our dog) but comes out Beeenbeeyyy!
- Cat - knows how to make the sound too
- Dog - knows how to make the sound too
- Hot
- Up
- Down
- Juice
- Raisins
- Cracker
- Eat
- More
- Please
- Thank you
- Moose
- Baby
- Yellow
- Purple
- Pink
- Bunny
- Blanket
- Pig - knows how to make the sound too
- Piggy
- Book
- Ball
- Egg
- Cheese
- Shoes
- Yeah
- Yay
- No
- Go
- Bag
- Hello
- Bye Bye
- Hi
- Frog - knows how to make the sound too
- Bear
- Train
- Hat
- Grandma
- Grandpa
- Uncle
- Auntie
- Wagon
- Walk
- Bike
- Pizza
- Cup
- Milk
- Fish
- Bird - knows how to make the sound too
- Sheep - knows how to make the sound too
- Cow - knows how to make the sound too
- Horse - knows how to make the sound too
I know there are more words that I can't think of, it's amazing how her vocabulary has exploded. She understands things really well, you can ask her to do things or bring you something and she will go and find it. Sometimes she will say things that we didn't even think she knew!
Loves to wear shoes, go for walks and wagon rides - you can't say "Let's go for a walk" and not go, she runs to the door in our laundry room, which goes out to the garage. Loves to play outside. Loves getting up into a chair or on the couch by herself. She is also climbing up into her highchair and tells us when she wants to eat, I try to remember to put her tray back because she climbs up there when your back is turned for a second!
She has started to tantrum here and there, and we find when we tell her she can't have something and why and starts a meltdown, we just walk away from here (if were not out) and within seconds she gets up and stops crying. Seems to work for now...
Over Memorial Day weekend Jeremy and I went on our annual camping trip at Winchester Bay, near Coos Bay - Oregon dunes. We were going to bring Mckenzie but when my parents offered to watch her for the weekend, we decided to take them up on their offer. We drove from Meridian to Portland on Wednesday night and she pretty much slept most of the way through since we left after dinner. We stayed in Sherwood Wednesday to Thursday. Early Friday morning Mckenzie woke up with croup, so I took her into the ER and she was given medication and we were out within 30 minutes. It has been suggested to take them into a steamy bathroom for about 20 minutes or outside in the moist air. Neither seems to ever work and croup can usually peak on night 2, so I figured with us leaving early Friday morning it'd be best to take her in vs my parents having to take her in while we were gone. Luckilu we were in and out within 30 minutes. After we returned from the ER around 5am, went back to sleep and got up about 6am, I took her by myself since Jeremy was driving and I could sleep. She had a wonderful weekend with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandpa was remodeling the kitchen and Mckenzie helped demo and they tore out all the cabinets. I laughed at my step-dad when he said he was planning to do it when he watched Mckenzie on Friday, because I thought there was no way he was getting it done!
Our weekend consisted of great weather! Usually rains a day or 2 of the weekend. It was our first weekend away (together) without Mckenzie. We enjoyed ourselves and missed her. It was sure nice to be able to go ride our quads on the dunes and not feel rushed to hurry back to camp because someone was watching her.
We will be back and forth to Oregon quite a bit in June and July for birthday parties, a good friend's wedding which Jeremy is the best man in so all the fun festivities that surround that. :) Its nice that I am able to work at my office in Portland if needed!
Other then that we don't have many trips planned this year. Jeremy's family is going to Yellowstone in September. I am unsure if I plan to go, I can't imagine a toddler enjoying being in and out of her carseat all the time. She does well in the car but I doubt she will do good getting in and out which seems to happen frequently when visiting Yellowstone. We'll see what happens and play it by ear for now.
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