Never posted about Cole’s dentist appt. I don’t think I did. His teeth were fine. They weren’t able to clean them because Cole protested too much and the dentist wants the dental experience to be “fun” for him so we’re going to try again in six months. I get this because I saw a little girl in the dental chair that was just turning three years old and her mom said this was the first time the litttle girl would let them near her teeth. If it takes a year and they are still monitoring his teeth for decay, then I’m totally fine with it.
Okay, now on to eyes. We had another eye appt for Miss Paige yesterday. I love our eye doc. I love him enough to wait 2 hours in his nasty waiting room with a thousand other families where there isn’t enough room to sit down. Well, Paige’s prescription has not changed yet again….good news. The bad news (and maybe this could be super news, hard to tell) is that the doc recommended she have strabismus surgery this next month. This entails cutting and “cleaning” the eye muscles. It should help with her crossing her eyes and the shifting of her eyes. But there is a 20% chance that it could do absolutely nothing. The thing that made me decide to do it, besides the obvious benefit if it works, is that the doc said he would do it if it were his kid. I don’t know why…but hearing doctors say that phrase always makes me feel oodles better. Our NICU doc said that to us quite a bit and I always trusted him completely. But anyways enough of me complementing Dr. L, we’re talking about Dr. C here. So back to the eyes….the doc also is going to do another glaucoma check on Cole this coming month. So I said, “great, let’s knock out both kids on the same day back to back”. Eric wasn’t so keen on this in case something went wrong with either kid. I get that too. But it’s nice to deprive both of them food/drink on the same day, make the drive down to the surgery center in the wee hours of the morning on the same day, keep them both entertained in the pre-op area at the same time and just be done with it all. But I guess we’ll pick two different days to do it.
Something kind of amusing was this lady in the waiting room of the eye doc yesterday. My girl J was with me, thank god, otherwise I would have been dying waiting for so long. This other mom just kept talking to anyone who would listen about random things. Of course my girl J is really nice so she was the target of most of this other mom’s ramblings. I told my girl J that motherhood makes you crazy. I have my girl J to ramble to, but if I didn’t, I would probably be that other mom talking to any other adult available. It is completely isolating being a SAHM and I can’t believe on most days how much my life has changed and how much I crave interaction with others. I went out with my BFF for two hours last weekend without the kids and I was in heaven. And it was only two hours. Eric always tells me to call up other SAHM’s but that is harder than it seems. We have been so sick for so long, we weren’t able to have playdates, and I don’t know a lot of SAHM’s. I think most people prefer to work. Being a SAHM is lonely, there are many days I think about going back to work just to have a normal conversation that doesn’t involve crying or poop. My girl J told us last night that she will come back to us for more hours this summer which is great and hopefully we can get the kids potty-trained to start preschool in fall. It won’t get me more interaction with people, but at least I’ll have a little downtime. Wow! Just re-read those last couple of sentences, it sounds like I’m a whiny ungrateful mom. I really have always wanted to be a SAHM like my own mother and I don’t want to go back to work. I’m really fortunate that we have the opportunity to keep our kids at home with a psychotic mother!!
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