Doctor’s appointments
Sunday, January 20th, 2008I’m getting behinder and behinder on posting, and I don’t even have any new photos to put up. I’m pretty useless this week! I’ve been pretty busy at work (that’s a good thing!) and my days off have been occupied with doctor’s appointments. Nothing big, but I had to go last Monday for a blood pressure recheck and general scolding for gaining weight again (my blood pressure was improved, however, so the scolding was not as severe as it could have been.)
Anna had a visit to her pediatric ophthalmologist on Thursday morning. She passed with flying colors. She can talk well enough to identify pictures now, so the assistant was using little projections of a panda and a jeep and a tree and a house, etc. Anna was scaring me a little because she could clearly identify them at the 20/40 level, but not any better. Of course, she’s a bit contrary about things like that, so I’m never sure if she really can’t do it, or if she just thinks she’s being cute by acting like she doesn’t know. In any case, after her eyes were dilated and the doctor came in to look at them, she declared that she was not nearsighted yet, and doesn’t want to see her back until next year. She still thinks that because Anna has normal vision at this age, when most toddlers still are somewhat farsighted (I think), that Anna will become nearsighted as her eyes mature.Â
As we were leaving the office, someone called out our name, and it turned out to be Tricia, from southern New Hampshire, whom I met on-line via a Yahoo group last year. She was there with her son, Drake, home from China for about 6 months or so. He actually has albinism, unlike Anna. He looked wonderful, and it was a treat to meet up with someone I know only from the cyber world!
I had rather an exciting weekend on call last week. Normally, I just have to suture a few lacerations, pull porcupine quills, hold a few hands, etc. This time, I got to see a dog who ate some of the carpeting in his crate. His owners didn’t know that; they only knew he was vomiting. After taking x-rays and doing bloodwork, we decided that it was likely he had something obstructing his GI tract, so we went in for exploratory surgery. I found two long lengths of wool carpet yarn and a length of Christmas ribbon. I had to open his stomach and small intestines in 4 different places to get it all out. He did well through surgery, and he was eating and drinking by the next afternoon, so I let him go home. He wasn’t out of the woods yet at that point, and I haven’t heard how he did the rest of the week, but it was kind of fun to do a surgery I don’t get to perform all the time.Â