Sweet Henry had his visit with the pediatric ENT doctor today.And he did not enjoy it at all.
He has been officially diagnosed with tracheomalacia, which is what we expected. Basically the cartilage around is vocal cords is weak and floppy which causes the scary sound he makes pretty much every time he breathes. Since a baby's chest wall is so thin, sounds are amplified and it feels like his whole chest rattles and vibrates (think about how after a good feeding, you can sometimes hear the milk swooshing around in their belly...not normal in a grown up!) The good news is that it usually peaks at 4-6 months and then should start decreasing and eventually be gone by a year. The bad news is that if it doesn't, he'll have surgery involving lasers and a stay in the ICU. Either way, it's curable, it's totally fine to live with, and it won't turn into an immediate I-can't-breathe problem. And now that he's fully insured, we just bought ourselves some serious peace of mind for the bargain price of 20 bucks.
Worth even this:
That's right, the camera there goes up his nose, down his nasal passage and gives a lovely view of his vocal cords.Poor buddy!
The bright side of the day was that he started some serious talking while we were in the waiting room. I mean he's cooed before but this was hard-core jabbering. People were just smiling like crazy at him and he ate it up!
Number 4...talking loud and fast and taking advantage of anyone's full attention!
2 comments:
Poor little guy! Miss his collagen cheeks :)
oh poor Henry and poor momma, that must have been hard to handle. I am glad he is okay and insured, whew!
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