Medical Madness

It seems the last few months have been filled with tons and tons of medical stuff.

Since we are a loving family and like to share in all things, we did not limit all the medical to just the boys.

Honestly what fun would that be?

We arrived home with the boys on August 10th..... 10 weeks ago today.

What would be a reasonable number of appointment, illnesses, hospitalizations, surgeries, sedations etc??

Whatever number you cam up with.... I am sure we have far exceeded it.

On August 12th both boys had a check up with our primary care doctor. Adam had a double ear infection

August 13 Adam saw his neurologist

August 13 Kaitlyn saw the doctor for a broken arm and got a splint

August 16 Kaitlyn saw the doctor to get her cast on

August 16 Brittany saw the Dr for Strep throat

Ok I cannot keep up on all the dates, but I will try to keep them in order....

Adam and Matthias see the dentist

Matthias and I go in for strep

Adam goes to the ER for possible shunt malfunction

Adam goes in for a 2 week follow up for his ears

Adam meets with a comprehensive care team of 4 doctors!!

Adam has a sedated MRI on his head

Adam sees the neurosurgeon

Adam sees the orthopedic surgeon

Adam gets casted for DAFOs

Matthias has a sedated ABR

Adam has a feeding study

Adam picks up his DAFOs

Kaitlyn goes to the Doctor to get her cast off

Adam has a seizure and gets taken to the ER

Adam rides in an ambulance for a hospital transfer

Adam returns to the ER 2 days later for high fever of unknown source

Adam stays in the hospital for 5 days

Adam gets measured for his wheel chair

Adam has an MRI on his spine

Adam gets to pick up his hensinger collar

Kevin gets injured while we were moving and takes a trip to the ER

Kevin goes to our primary care doc

Kevin gets referred to a pain management doc

Kevin has an MRI on his spine

Kevin gets spinal shot

Kevin sees a PT

Adam has dental surgery

Kevin sees PT

Kevin gets flu following flu shot

Adam sees opthamolgy

Adam has double hip surgery

Adam has a 5 day hospital stay

Alyssa goes to quick care for an infection in her lip and thumb

So 10 weeks.....

over 30 doctors appts

3 sedated tests 2 MRIs and an ABR

a non sedated MRI

4 ER trips

2 hospitals stays

2 surgeries

2 casts

That is a LOT in 10 weeks

I should also mention  that in that 10 weeks we also moved!

We discovered a LOT though..... some things we knew and many we did not

We found out Adam had double hip displasia which got him this awesome cast following surgery

All but 4 of Adam's teeth were bad

Adam is completely blind in his left eye and more than double legally blind in his right

Adam's shunt is working, but there is still a lot of fluid due to the size of his head.

Adam may not have CP but at this time the diagnosis of Quad spastic CP stands.

Adam has dysphasia... swallowing difficulty

I'm sure there is much more, but I think that is plenty.

Matthias is completely deaf. We will be trying hearing aides, but doctors doubt they will help. Cochlear implants may be an option in the future.

Adam just got released from the hospital with a Spica cast for 6-8 weeks.

He is on a pulse-ox machine to determine if he maintains his oxygen saturation.

We have an oxygen machine, 9 oxygen tanks and tons of other medical supplies here now.

We have a temporary wheel chair and will order his permanent one when he gets his cast off.

There is a LOT going on in our family right now and we would appreciate prayers.

I know many people who have adopted and nobody has a story quite like ours ;)