Tuesday, January 24, 2012

More Speech/Feeding Therapy!


As I mentioned before, speech/feeding therapy is my new focus for Callie in this new year.  After a bit of negotiating, I am happy to report our county has now agreed to provide Callie with one hour of speech therapy per week.  So she will now have a weekly session with a county therapist in our home as well as continue to attend...

Friday, January 20, 2012

Sleep Study Results


Today I met with the doctor at our sleep center to review Callie's results.  Our little girl has sleep apnea.  :-(  The report I received describes how comprehensive the test was:  "A Sensormedics SomnoStar polysomnograph recorded EEG, eye movement, chin EMG, airflow, microphone, chest and diaphragmatic excursion, EKG,...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Sleep Study


Last night Callie went to a local sleep center for a sleep study.  We checked in at 8:15 PM and about 45 minutes later they wired her up.  It was similar to our experience with EEGs, but less probes on her head and more on her little face.  Unfortunately it turned out to be a bad night for our appointment because just hours...

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Another ENT Update


Two and a half weeks ago I wrote about how Callie had ongoing congestion, went through two rounds of antibiotics, and still had an infection in her right ear.  After the fever I mentioned, we ended up filling the third antibiotic prescribed by her pediatrician and finally the runny nose and cold symptoms cleared.  Today we went...
 

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