Renee has been cleared by the Optometrist and the Neurologist to play softball again. There is a game tonight, so, we'll see if the Coach lets her play. Previously she has started every game either at 2nd, Pitcher or Left Field. There are girls who rarely play at all. Coach may let them play and have Renee sit because she missed a week of practices.
Here's hopin' she'll be out on the field!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Happy Birthdays!
This was a busy birthday week! Karlton and Don had their birthday Monday! Happy Birthday to the Old Farts!!
Wednesday was Konrad's 1st Birthday!!! What a big boy! It's hard to believe it's been a year, but also hard to remember a time when I was not asking Laura every week how my guy was doing.
Thursday was another Old Fart Birthday, Uncle Bill!! But, he had the bonus of getting 3 new members of his birthday club this time. Congratulations to Vern and Stacie and Allison on the arrival of the 3 newest Smith's! We hope you are all doing well!
Lots of love to all the Birthday boys and girls!
Wednesday was Konrad's 1st Birthday!!! What a big boy! It's hard to believe it's been a year, but also hard to remember a time when I was not asking Laura every week how my guy was doing.
Thursday was another Old Fart Birthday, Uncle Bill!! But, he had the bonus of getting 3 new members of his birthday club this time. Congratulations to Vern and Stacie and Allison on the arrival of the 3 newest Smith's! We hope you are all doing well!
Lots of love to all the Birthday boys and girls!
Status update...
Well, I knew it would happen...I slacked off. The girls have been cruising along with school and softball. Getting lots of A's and making great plays.
We have had a little hiccup with Renee this past week. She told me Tuesday morning that she couldn't open her eyes all the way. They just wanted to close. It was fine when she looked down, but not when she looked straight ahead. It was FCAT day, the state's standardized testing that determines everything. She said she could do it so we let her go to school. We called her Endocrinologist and the Optometrist while she was at school. The eye appointment didn't help. The Dr. couldn't get her to 20/20 in either eye and she was a 2 out of 10 for eye dryness. She said the muscles weren't responding properly. The thyroid Doc got back to Rod late in the day and said we needed to get her tested for Myasthenia Gravis the next day with our Pediatrician.
She went to school the next day and then to the Ped. Doc. She couldn't run the test and refereed us to a list of Pediatric Neurologists. Beginning of April was the best any of them could do. Of course that was not good enough! Thursday, the Ped Doc told us to take her to Florida Hospital Pediatric ER to get blood tests started and a CT scan run. The good new there was that the ER docs really didn't think it looked like MG and the brain and blood were both fine. They sent us home that night.
Friday, we let her sleep in and then took her for a follow-up with the Neurologist. They did a bunch of tests on her and she passed. The woman working with her said her eyelids looked more swollen than droopy, but that we knew her best.
This morning we knew she was out of her Rx for her thyroid medicine and Rod went to get the container so we could get it refilled. He said that there were 15 pills in there, but it should be empty. Renee had taken 1/2 of a 125mg pill every morning. She cut it in half with the cutter every other day. In Feb. the Dr. upped her dosage from 62 (half of a 125) to 75, just a straight 75mg pill. The 75 mg pill bottle had 15 pills in it and was sitting next to the 125mg empty pill bottle. We believe that she has over dosaged herself. She thought she was taking 75, but actually was taking 125, BIG difference!
Today she took a 75mg pill and tomorrow she will not take a pill. The symptoms of too much include blurred vision, sensitivity to light and swollen eye lids. We are hoping that this is the real problem and that she may be back to "normal" soon.
This has been the scariest few days. We hope this will be over soon. I did not share sooner because is was too upsetting. Now, that we might have some answers, I can share.
We have had a little hiccup with Renee this past week. She told me Tuesday morning that she couldn't open her eyes all the way. They just wanted to close. It was fine when she looked down, but not when she looked straight ahead. It was FCAT day, the state's standardized testing that determines everything. She said she could do it so we let her go to school. We called her Endocrinologist and the Optometrist while she was at school. The eye appointment didn't help. The Dr. couldn't get her to 20/20 in either eye and she was a 2 out of 10 for eye dryness. She said the muscles weren't responding properly. The thyroid Doc got back to Rod late in the day and said we needed to get her tested for Myasthenia Gravis the next day with our Pediatrician.
She went to school the next day and then to the Ped. Doc. She couldn't run the test and refereed us to a list of Pediatric Neurologists. Beginning of April was the best any of them could do. Of course that was not good enough! Thursday, the Ped Doc told us to take her to Florida Hospital Pediatric ER to get blood tests started and a CT scan run. The good new there was that the ER docs really didn't think it looked like MG and the brain and blood were both fine. They sent us home that night.
Friday, we let her sleep in and then took her for a follow-up with the Neurologist. They did a bunch of tests on her and she passed. The woman working with her said her eyelids looked more swollen than droopy, but that we knew her best.
This morning we knew she was out of her Rx for her thyroid medicine and Rod went to get the container so we could get it refilled. He said that there were 15 pills in there, but it should be empty. Renee had taken 1/2 of a 125mg pill every morning. She cut it in half with the cutter every other day. In Feb. the Dr. upped her dosage from 62 (half of a 125) to 75, just a straight 75mg pill. The 75 mg pill bottle had 15 pills in it and was sitting next to the 125mg empty pill bottle. We believe that she has over dosaged herself. She thought she was taking 75, but actually was taking 125, BIG difference!
Today she took a 75mg pill and tomorrow she will not take a pill. The symptoms of too much include blurred vision, sensitivity to light and swollen eye lids. We are hoping that this is the real problem and that she may be back to "normal" soon.
This has been the scariest few days. We hope this will be over soon. I did not share sooner because is was too upsetting. Now, that we might have some answers, I can share.
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