Does this allergy season seem a little rougher than normal? Everyone in my house is sniffin' and coughing and noses are in need of serious tissue. Maybe today's rains will help the pollen counts drop, but then I hear the mold is going up. Thank goodness for the allergy medicine in the cabinet, or we would all be a red eyed weeping mess.The 6 month appointments in Saginaw are over and the verdicts are: Reese has fully functioning tubes and Claire's ears seem to have straightened themselves out, now Brendan is having trouble again. The ENT (Dr. Letson) wants to put his tubes back in for the 3rd time. There isn't an infection, just so much fluid he can't hear out of his left ear. Letson has been our Dr. for almost 8 years and I trust his judgement. He's not one quick to operate, even if it's minimally invasive. But this has promted us to figure out why an 8 year old hasn't outgrown a young person's problem. Dr. actually said 85% off children outgrow this problem my his age. Allergy testing is the verdict.
The kids have been told they can't have pets because 1. their dad is allergic and 2. I think they are too. Now we will find out for sure whether it's a certain tree, pet dander, grass or spores making the poor kid gush fluid. This will be our first time with an allergist and as anyone would be, I'm not thrilled about it. The images I've seen on-line are frightening and I will spare you the link. shudder! So say a small prayer on Wednesday morning. It may be our 8th surgery on the six ears, but it's nice to have some help from above to make sure things go smoothly.
5 comments:
You are deffinately in our prayers!!! Its a good thing your have a farm because than all the animals can stay outside where all the dander can blow away :-)
The allergist is a little scary, but information is good. My sister had that test as a child and she wasn't traumatized by it or anything. I'll be thinking of you Greenfelders.
Aw, good luck. Yes, this has been the most awful allergy season ever, in my mama opinion. Lily missed part of the second day of school, she was so miserable. It killed the poor kid. It does not help that we live between three corn fields and a woods.
Jack had allergy testing last year and it wasn't as bad as we were expecting. It's not fun to watch your kid get poked a billion times but it goes surprisingly fast.
I'll be thinking of you guys!
Yeah the whole farm livin' thing is not good if the kids can't go outside into the wild world of pollen. Remember that movie where the kid went outside in some kind of bubble, maybe ACE should consider selling those. I've heard lots of people are having allergy troubles this year. (Knock on wood, not the Kuchars)
My comment may seem late - but I'm there for ya' tomorrow. I'll be praying and hoping and (what's another -ing word.....) thinking of both of you! Big B is sure to come through like a champ and will undoubtably feel better soon!
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