update

FFP and I took Blondy to Sutter Hospital today for a pediatric neurology appointment after getting an unheard of referral from his general ped doc. With Blondy's constant headaches and migraines we needed a bit more than good old Dr. Tedford could give us so off we went for an afternoon excursion to Sacramento.

Blondy missed an afternoon of school and really didn't want to go. He actually said he'd rather just stay here but we had to explain that it doesn't work that way. He didn't fight us when it was time to go. The great thing is that Dr. Tedford's office called last Friday with the results of the MRI we had done the week before and they showed that he does have chronic sinus infections, and nothing more.

Dr. Khan was great. He has wonderful bedside manor which I would hope for if you went into pediatric anything. Jackson was cracking jokes and felt very comfortable with him. There were a few things that set off warning bells about his migraines though:

He snores
He reverted back to wetting the bed after being completely potty trained
He doesn't breath through his nose (he has to stop mid sentence to breath)
he has migraines (no brainer hu?) way too frequently
He tires easily

So the plan is to get a sleep study down at Sutter sometime this next month. After that we will see Dr. Khan again and depending on the sleep results he maybe referred to an Ear Nose and Throat Specialist. Dr. Khan believes he may have sleep apnea, not to the extent of not breathing but just not getting enough restful sleep. If this goes on too long it could have lasting problems, school work suffers, his attention span wanes, his fatigue increases and as an adult it can cause hypertension and lead to heart disease and stroke. So if we can nip this in the bud here and now, lets do it.

Some things we are able to do at home in the mean time is a regular bedtime, no chocolate (yes Blondy's world just might collapse), and no nitrates or processed meats (out goes the salami and hot dogs in his mac and cheese). For a child who is pretty picky about what he eats I'm cutting his diet in half. LOL. We are to the point that he goes hungry if he doesn't want to eat what I make. He gets his pick at breakfast and for the most part at lunch (I say you can have this or that and he picks one but I AM NOT A SHORT ORDER COOK). Dinner has been harder. He just doesn't like mexican food and that's what everyone else wants. I need to add some different recipes into my dinners and be more flexible I know.

So we survived today and I just can't wait for them to plug him into all those machines and then try to sleep, and me try to sleep too.