So Tuesday, Nicholas woke up from his morning nap at Mimi and Pop's and sounded like he was "barking" after fussing. His voice was a bit off and had the sounds of the "croup". We decided to take him to the doctor. Granted this was the first time he had any signs or symptoms of being sick, so I wanted to nip it in the bud before it progressed into something bad. Luckily Dr. Whitaker saw him without calling ahead and during their lunch break (Note to self: Greenvale closed between 1 and 2pm).
He didn't have any fever, his chest sounded fine and ears looked good, but Dr. Whitaker did see a little something down his throat. They decided to give Nicholas a steroid shot to open up his airways and gave me a two-day prescription to help as well. He also recommended running a humidifier or if needed steam up the bathroom and take him in there.
All I can say is that I'm glad Mimi caught it when she did and called me because Nicholas didn't really get sick. We did everything the doctor told us to do and Nicholas has slept great the past few nights. Granted his naps have been off for various reasons, but at least he is sleeping. He still coughs and sneezes on occasion, but nothing to be concerned about.
As if all that wasn't enough for him, today I took him to get his eyes checked for free at Chelsea Eye Care. Dr. Whitaker had told us several months back about a program called InfantSee that provides free eye exams for infants age 6 - 12 months old. I normally wouldn't have been interested, but since Ryan (my brother) had issues with his vision since birth I thought it couldn't hurt, plus it was free. Dr. Walker was great with him. Nicholas wasn't a big fan of her putting all kinds of opthamologic (??) stuff in his face, but was as patient as a 10 month old could be. The funniest part of this visit was when Dr. Walker put eye drops in to dialate his eyes. After putting drops in, we had to wait 15 minutes for her to examine him again. Well apparently she missed one of his eyes because he had one pupil completely dialated and huge and the other was normal. It was the funniest looking thing. Hilarious stuff!
The prognosis is that Nicholas is a little farsighted and has one eye stronger than the other, but all in all everything looked good. I'm sure he's hoping he won't have any more poking or proding to deal with for a long time.
This week Nicholas has become very proficient at pulling himself up. In the beginning his feet had to be in the right position and he had to have something really good to hold on to, but now he pops up like it's no thing. He has also mastered "cruising" (aka - holding on to furniture and walking - or more like shuffling). He continues to have no desire to crawl, which I am pretty certain he will just not do. Goodnight everyone!
Your going to have to give me that information on the eye doctor. Reagan will need to go ASAP!
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