May. 22, 2009 - Harmony's Test Results
Most of you know that Harmony (6 months) has been sick since she was 2 weeks old. When she was 2 1/2 months, she was hospitalized 4 days in our local ICU and 8 days in PCCU at Vanderbilt's Children's Hospital. They diagnosied her with reflux. She has been on Prevasid and sleeps with an apnea monitor. She has not had any apnea spells while on Prevasid, but still rattles in her chest and keeps a cough pretty much all the time. We took her in April for a followup visit to Vanderbilt and the doctor felt like we needed to do a probe to see if the cough was related to her reflux. They did the probe May 05 and then a swallow test on May 06. We were told immediately that the swallow test looked fine, everything went where it was suppose to. We were told that the probe results would be back in a week, we FINALLY got a call from her doctor today. It looks like the cough is related to her relux. She had 2 acid reflux spells during the 24 hour period she had the probe in place. She shouldn't have had any, because she is on Prevasid. She had 38 non acid reflux spells. 50% of the time she coughed she was refluxing. They have decided she needs to go on a medication that will digest her food faster. This should help her not to reflux so much. If this medication doesn't help or if she has side affects and cannot take it they will do a surgery in which they will go in and wrap something. I'm not sure if she meant wrapping the esphogaus or stomach. I do not want her to have surgery so I blocked that part out! Help us pray for God's wisdom and healing. We are going to be starting the medication in a day or so. She will take it 3 times a day. I have never left her for more than a short trip to the grocery store, and then daddy and Harley watched her. Tomorrow night, I am leaving her with Wes's mom so I can go to my 20th high school reunion. The side affects can be seizures or excess fusiness. Things to do with neurological system. So I want to make sure I can watch her very close when we give it to her the first time. Recently, I have heard about taking babies to the chiropractor for reflux so I am seriously debating taking her. Continue to pray for her. Also, pray that I will be a witness at my reunion. I wasn't going but my BF wanted me to go with her so I am. I am so not the person I was in high school, PRAISE GOD!!!!!!
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May. 23, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Josephine
