it pours... which is funny considering it's supposed to rain the next few days. But I was talking about what's been going on with my family. My last post talked about never having enough time. I'm still there with that but it just seems that things keep going on with hubby or kids or me. Lately, other than my back, I've been pretty well. Until just recently.
I have had this intermittent issue with my stomach. The flap on my stomach doesn't always close. Then during divorce and then subsequently pregnancies, I became prone to acid reflux and ulcers. Then in the past few years, every so often, I have problems with my food going down "fast" (or normal) my esophagus. It's not painful, but it's also not pleasant. It's not like it went down the wrong pipe and you need help to get it out of there. It's in the right area, it just kind of "sits" in your esophagus and slowly moves down. Think of swallowing air. It feels like a gas bubble slowly going down. You feel everything.
Well until recently, it didn't happen "that" often, just every once in awhile. But just recently, it seems to be going on with anything I eat or drink. So this morning, I decided to do a search on slow esophagus. Don't worry, I take everything I find with a grain of salt ;)
But what I didn't imagine I'd find that this is a fairly common thing cropping up. It's called esophageal motility disorders. So now in my busy schedule, I will be trying to find time to get to my Primary Care Physician (PCP) and get a referral to a specialist and then get scheduled for tests to check it out. Of course, also knowing me, it probably won't show up when they want to do the test. I can't tell you how many times that has happened to me and doctors think I'm nuts usually.
And now, we're still waiting on the results of my youngest daughter's MRI and blood work.
Regardless of what I go through I know God only gives me what I can handle -- even when I don't think I can. Each thing I go through helps me to evolve into a better person. For example, my youngest daughter who is delayed, we got out these picture/word flash cards we used with our eldest and then a bit with the boy and worked on recognizing the picture - saying the word and then for fun I started spelling it and she "copied" me spelling the word too. She thinks it's great fun. She even cried having a tantrum when we stopped. I think having her repeat the letters (even if it doesn't click with her) gives her a chance to get the sounds down a bit more. She also for the first time ever was able to point to her nose, mouth, eyes, and ears. I almost cried seeing her do it. I will be working with her more on that - as so far it's been a one time event. That's the tricky part to her condition -- there's no rulebook to follow -- everyone is different in some way. I am also loving the fact that she's becoming more independent in her feeding. For example, after her MRI - we had to watch her getting back to food. So we started after water to applesauce. By the time I saw her she was getting really hungry. So when I gave her the spoon and opened the applesauce, she did it all on her own. Usually she lets us spoon it for her. I've been recently pushing her to do it herself. Or if nothing else helping her scoop things up, but letting her take it to her mouth. Well it's paying off!
I love my kids, but I'm going to challenge them wherever I can. I want them to work to get what they can and know that they can try and fail and it's alright. We'll try again and maybe the next time they'll succeed.
Oh and kuddos to my eldest -- she did most of her diorama by herself and working with her (although a short time frame in doing so - bad me) she got great marks for both! Plus the clasping of the hands kept her from jumping around when giving her presentation.
Not to forget the boy -- I usually say to him -- "you're so cute!".. well yesterday he had his bunny and handed it to me and then kept saying to the bunny "Oh you're so cute!" Quite funny :) He's a lovey boy and I like it that way.
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