We don’t know a whole lot more than we did this time last week, now that we’ve been to both the pediatrician and the ENT – only that we are waiting on some test results and need to schedule more appointments.
Peyton had her appointment with Dr. Bosley on Wednesday, and she did great – until they had to draw blood, do another TB test, and prick her finger. She whimpered a bit when we had to strip her down to her diaper, but as soon as my mom handed her cell phone over to Peyton, she was just as happy as could be. When the nurse came in, she freaked when they took her blood pressure but calmed down when she listened to her heart with the stethoscope. She also hated getting her height and weight taken. Peyton was fascinated by the stethoscope and wanted to “listen” to her own heart. She conned both the nurse and Dr. Bosley out of theirs! It was really cute. When Dr. Bosley came into the room, she gave him that cute smile and waved at him, then went about her business of playing while he and I talked. He was typing at the computer, and she walked up to him and wanted him to hold her. It was adorable. He said he was worried she wouldn’t like him. The only time she fussed through the examination with him was when he needed to look into her ears. I had to hold her head so he could take a look; otherwise, she was pretty cooperative and let him examine her from head to toe. He said he was surprised she looked so healthy – he, like us, expected her to be skinnier and was happy to see she had some meat on her bones. He told me we could switch her to 1% or 2% milk since she didn’t need the extra fat from the whole milk. He answered all of our questions and sent the nurses back in to do the blood draw.
The blood draw will check for several infectious diseases (all of the diseases they check for in an international adoption case), such as Hep A, B, & C; syphilis, HIV, etc. We should have those results back within a week. They also did another TB skin test – I take her back Friday afternoon to check the results – and pricked her finger to do a lead test. The girl who drew Peyton’s blood was AMAZING! Peyton fought hard against the blood draw and pokes, and it took me, my mom, and one of the nurses to hold her while the other nurse got the needle in and drew the blood. Poor little girl was exhausted afterwards and did not like the band-aids. She kept asking me to take them off. She needs to have all of her vaccinations done all over again, but Dr. Bosley didn’t want to traumatize her all at once, so we are going to spread those out, depending on our next appointment(s) at Children’s Hospital.
After the pediatrician, we (my mom and I) took Peyton to Toys-R-Us and bought her a doctor’s kit. When we got into the car, she wanted it out of the package and played with the stethoscope. I knew she’d enjoy it! She played with it at home that evening and even pretended to give herself shots. She did not, however, like the blood pressure cuff. When I tried to pretend with it, she backed away, swiped it out of my hands, and threw it on the floor. She wanted nothing to do with it!
We did experience a bit of a break through, however, on Wednesday afternoon. Peyton took me into the playroom and explored everything on her bookshelf and everything in the totes. The room was destroyed, but I could have cared less because she was in there playing. Granted, she was sitting on books at times to avoid the carpet, but she was expressing interest in being in there. Before that, she took a magnet board my mom had given her and placed it on the floor next to the light that shines on the disco ball so she could look at it without having to make contact with the carpet (since she was only in her diaper and shirt at the time). I was impressed with her efforts, and so was Darren.
Darren was sad that he wasn’t getting to spend much time with his little girl. By this time, he was really missing her and hating that he gets home so late from work. By the time he grabbed something to eat, it was time to watch stars and go night night. Hopefully he can make some adjustments at work to try to get home a little earlier so he can spend some time with her before bed time, and I’m sure he will cherish the weekends he doesn’t have a home football game to work.
I am exhausted and should get some sleep, so I will try to post an update on the ENT visit and events that took place on Thursday a little later in the day on Friday. The gist of that appointment is that we don’t have any more information today than we did going into the appointment – we need to take her back for a hearing test, an MRI, and a CT scan while she is under for all three to take a look at what she’s got going on internally. As long as everything looks “normal” after these tests and a few other steps take place, we’ll get her into surgery to be implanted before the end of the year. Please keep praying for Peyton! Our prayer is that she is a candidate for the CI (cochlear implant) and that we can move as quickly as possible to get it done so that we can move forward with helping her hear and, eventually, develop speech.
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