Doctors, Doctors, And MORE Doctors!

Woo! This week was a big one! Audrey had SEVERAL doctors appointments. The first was with Dr. Wilson at the Sleep Disorders Clinic. Not a whole lot of news there. Dr.Wilson was awesome! When you see as many medical professionals as we do you learn to appreciate a good doctor. Anyway, he took a VERY detailed account and history of Audrey's sleeping habits and watched my video. He agrees she needs a sleep study. I should here from his office by tomorrow to schedule that.

We also went back to her pediatrician for the weird rash on her cheeks. We still can't figure out what it is. Dr. Nielsen's out of guesses so she refereed us to a pediatric dermatologist who we will see on Monday.

Today we went to the Ophthalmologist. It went medium. Audrey has clogged tear ducts and will need surgery if they don't resolve on their own in the next three months. The procedure is low risk and has a pretty high success rate (85%) so we've got that going for us. He also said she has an astigmatism. She doesn't need glasses now but I have a feeling that she will in the next year or so. He also confirmed that the little white spots in Audrey's eyes are, as I suspected, Brushfield spots. Brushfield spots don't effect vision at all they are just a common characteristic of people with Down syndrome. Quite frankly, they are freaking beautiful. They look like tinny stars.

Tomorrow she has therapy at a new therapy center. Cross your fingers people. Mamma NEEDS this to go well.

In other happenings, we had a play date with one of Audrey's new besties, Kadie. I met Kadie's Mommy Jackie through our local DS support group. Kadie is about three month older than Audrey and I can already tell they're going to be friends. Look how Kadie helps get Audrey's boogers. Now that's friendship folks! Jackie got a pre-sale pass to a consignment sale in our area and invited me to go with. After the Moms did some damage to the ole check book (does anyone still use a checkbook anymore...) Audrey and I headed over to their house so the girls could get in some play time. It's so cool to watch these little ones interact with each other. Audrey was FASCINATED!