The Honey Family: March 2009

So, ever since Ayzie was born she has had problems with reflux and constipation. She has never been able to eat more than 4 ounces in about an hours time, so slow!!! She has been really bad lately about puking all the time, I feel like most of her bottle comes up (an hour of feeding for nothing!) She also had bloody poop (sorry, a lot of gross info) a couple of times, so my doctor sent her to Dr. Kaddu, that is a pediatric gastroenterologist. Anyway, she had an upper GI done where she had to drink a dye and as she was drinking it they took x-rays of it going down from different angles and positions. What they found wasn't even what they were looking for. Besides the fact that she has bad reflux which we already knew, she also had a stricture in her esophagus. It's like a little shelf thing that pokes out into her esophagus that she was born with and it causes her to eat very slowly and as she eats more solid foods she will have a really hard time eating. So the doctor gave me the picture of the stricture in her esophagus and sure enough there it was. The next step was to put her under :( I have had to put all three of my babies under and it is a horrible feeling!) and do an endoscopy where they go down her esophagus with a scope and try to spread open the stricture. So, we went in bright and early on Feb. 25 to have the procedure done. When the doctor came out to talk to us after it was all done guess what, it was no longer freaking there! What is with this girl!!! He said he doesn't know what to say but we must of been praying hard for her! He also took three biopsies of her esophagus, stomach, and small intestine. I was kind of mad that there was nothing there because that meant we couldn't just take care of the problem then and there. Now we just have to wait and see what happens when she starts eating chunkier foods because it could be something else that I don't need to go into now because I'm praying we won't have to worry about that. The biopsy report came back that she had reflux, and also her small intestine was a little inflamed and she had these allergy protein things in her stomach which means she probably has a milk protein allergy, which is something Cole had also, but it wasn't such a big deal being on the expensive formula because we had wic with him and now we don't, so Ayzie's formula is going to cost us somewhere around an extra $200 a month more than what we have been paying. Also Dr. Kaddu doubled her dose of prilosec so that cost goes up too! Oh the joys of having kids!! She is doing pretty good as of now besides all the vomiting so now it's just a waiting game! Considering what we were supposed to be going through with all the surgeries from the cleft this is nothing, I just have to remember that!