How Many Doctors Appointments in 1 Week?

Last week we played a game called "how many doctors appointments can we go to in 1 week." Bug had his well baby scheduled for one morning and before the appointment I took him for a foot xray since he limps on it on occasion and complains that it hurts. Since we've gotten him a new pair of shoes this has happened a lot less but we figured we might as well take him just to make sure we don't miss anything. That ultimately broke our "no more than one appointment per day" for Bug rule, so by the time we got to his well baby he was done. The major topic of discussion at his well baby was his eating habits and how he gets his nutrition. He's a pretty small little guy and still uses a soy supplement, that he gets through his bottle for a significant portion of his nutrition. The ped suggested we see an eating specialist to see if they can help us get him off the bottle and on a more normal toddler diet.

Later in the week Bug had an appointment with the allergist to get his flu shot testing and flu shot. Since we hadn't done any SPT in a year, we did a pretty full panel of foods and cat/dog on Bug's back. We waited for that and the 1st flu shot test to be done and as we were waiting I could tell that some of his food allergies were still really bad, if not worse, at least according to the skin testing results. The good news was that his flu shot test came back negative but since his egg allergy was out of this world, we still needed to do the interdermal tests, fun! So we waited for those and Bug didn't like that at all, especially since he could see it all on his arm. Those came back negative as well and he was given the full dose of the flu shot all at once and we had to wait a half hour before we could go. The good news for the food allergies was that there weren't really any new ones, the bad news was that none of them really went away and we still continue to get negative results on some foods on his skin but positive on his blood work, so we'll learn more when he has his RAST testing done and sees Dr. Wood this winter. Here's to hoping we get even just 1 food back!

And even later this week, I took bug to the ENT because he had drainage over the weekend and was still complaining that his ear really hurt. And since neither the ped or the allergist could see if the tube was still in and said his ear still looked infected even with the ear drops, off to the ENT we went. And the result was great, the tube was still there and the infection was clearing up nicely.

While we were at the ENT, Daddy went to the doctor because he wasn't feeling well. Turns out he has a sinus infection and got medicine for that and should be much less grumpy.

And then to seal the deal on Doctor Week, we took Roo to the ped on Saturday because his cough didn't sound good. And though we thought we could be wasting our time going since he didn't sound that bad by Saturday, she said that his throat looked like there was major drainage and decided to give him a round of antibiotics.

Guess Bug and I will get sick this week!