Things are going well on the healing front here and there’s not a lot of new information to report. Again, his diamond involuted only minorly last night, and we only swept it once, when I went to bed around 2am. He says the stretches don’t really cause him any pain, it’s just kind of gagging to have someone’s fingers under your tongue so he still flinches a little. I can still feel a lot of tension on the floor of his mouth, part of me is hoping that can be massaged away on our own to save the expense of bodywork, but that seems unlikely given his age. Hopefully the bodywork will be minimal.

 

I haven’t looked on a mobile device, because I’m afraid to, so I’m not sure how these posts are looking. Based on how they’re responding on a desktop I’m going to guess not well with all these pictures. Let’s just say there’s a big difference between web design and the programs I’m used to using. So I’m going back to the graphics, but, please don’t judge me (or my husband the much more talented graphic designer – he had no influence on these, his work is FAR superior to mine, but I can’t ask him to do all my work for me, he’s got his own stuff to do).

 

 

 

And for the most exciting part, I think we’re seeing a resolution of a symptom already! I just realized it, very late last night. In order for you to appreciate this I need to tell some back story since it’s not one I’ve mentioned before.

 

Let’s just say, to spare him too much future embarrassment, that I have been concerned about his voiding patterns for years now. Especially compared to his sister. Every time we’d go in for a well visit I’d bring it up to my pediatrician. I cannot tell you how many times this child has been tested for diabetes. A lot. It’s always negative. I knew he woke up to use the bathroom during the night, but it wasn’t until we took a trip a while back that I realized it was EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. Without exception. With the way our sleep schedules were he was up after I was in bed, so I never saw him and I didn’t always wake up to the sound of the running water. But since the baby was born and my schedule has gone all crazy, first with a baby and now with starting my practice, I’m up MUCH later than I used to be. And I see him now get up. EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. It’s been as many as 3 times between 9pm and 2am.

 

I realized yesterday I’ve been up until 1-2am every night for the past 6 nights. But he’s only been up once. He woke up around midnight Friday, the night of the procedure, but that’s it. He’s finally getting a full nights sleep, straight through. I think because he’s a kid, and because he’s a boy, he’s going to have a hard time articulating what he’s feeling. But I’ve been pregnant. Three times. I know what it’s like to have to get up to pee in the middle of the night and how it disrupts your sleep. I can’t imagine doing that for years on end. I hope he can get some rest now.