Zoe update update
Saw our pediatrician today. Here's a list of doctors we will now be going to see, in order:
Gastroenterologist - Acid reflux check (recommended by sleep study doc.)
ENT - Throat check. (recommended by sleep study doc.)
Ophthalmologist - Check her eyesight. (The only 4-month milestone the doctor thinks she's not meeting yet is the ability to track objects with her eyes.)
Pediatric Neurogeneticist - Looking for genetic brain diseases and such.
And we also - and this is my favorite - need to find an infectious disease doctor. Why? Oh, just in case every single doctor at all 3 hospitals (and the pediatrician making this recommend) missed that she had encephalitis, which she (our pediatrician) thinks is totally possible. Yeah. If it's that one, the damage is long since done and Zoe's screwed. My google searches show that it's unlikely, though. MRI we had done should have caught it. She never showed any other symptoms (like fever) and other stuff that babies typically show. And it usually happens within 2 weeks of birth, which were actually Zoe's most normal/typical weeks of her life. Still, REALLY fun to go to sleep tonight thinking about.
-m
Gastroenterologist - Acid reflux check (recommended by sleep study doc.)
ENT - Throat check. (recommended by sleep study doc.)
Ophthalmologist - Check her eyesight. (The only 4-month milestone the doctor thinks she's not meeting yet is the ability to track objects with her eyes.)
Pediatric Neurogeneticist - Looking for genetic brain diseases and such.
And we also - and this is my favorite - need to find an infectious disease doctor. Why? Oh, just in case every single doctor at all 3 hospitals (and the pediatrician making this recommend) missed that she had encephalitis, which she (our pediatrician) thinks is totally possible. Yeah. If it's that one, the damage is long since done and Zoe's screwed. My google searches show that it's unlikely, though. MRI we had done should have caught it. She never showed any other symptoms (like fever) and other stuff that babies typically show. And it usually happens within 2 weeks of birth, which were actually Zoe's most normal/typical weeks of her life. Still, REALLY fun to go to sleep tonight thinking about.
-m