i missed most of what the doc. was trying to tell me today. cause once he said she basically stops breathing an average of 1 time per minute or something i couldn't take much more in and kinda blanked out a bit there though i was awake and trying to listen to him. but i got it that chloe has severe sleep apnea.
the specialist said it starts out bad and gets much worse as the night goes on.
the numbers started out as 30 then they went to 60 once she reached the deep sleep and the big one was 113 or something other, could've been a higher number. from what i understand all these numbers change pretty quickly in something like an hour or something other. i didn't get most of it. cause i had a baaad brainfart when he started giving me the numbers and telling me how bad it was....
the doc. told me this at 2pm today and my mind still can't get over it. he showed me chloe's x-rays from the first initial visit a few weeks back. they're baaaaad. there is hardly any kind of passage at all due to the size of her adenoids and tonsils. we could tell things was bad just by looking at her tonsils but we had no clue just how bad.
sooooo. chloe is headed to the ear, nose throat doc. and gets a tosilectomy as soon as she goes back to the new family physician (the one that referred us to the specialist.) he's got to see her first and go from there same as emmy did.
hopefully she pulls through it as well as emmy did.
something i can't understand is since things are this bad with her, why in the hell did the last physician miss it, even after learning she was getting sick so much & was having to use that albuterol, easily winded and has some huge tonsils and and snored like a freight train?<EMOJI seq="1f615">
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we had been worried that something was wrong due to the huge tonsils, how weird she breathed sometimes at night and in the mornings b4 waking, and constant cough and colds, esp. since the colds and coughs got to be more frequent when emmy started school and was bringing home more germs and stuff and the snoring like a freight train sometimes when she was sick and sometimes even when she wasn't. (we never did much or hung out with many folks. mostly stayed home quite a bit.) but we had no idea it was this baaaad.
atleast this info. has clued us in as to why she's so hard to get up in the mornings and cranky all the time even on our (dh's and mine and emmy's) good days....
she aint resting!
:wideeyed::wideeyed::wideeyed::wideeyed::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:
the specialist said it starts out bad and gets much worse as the night goes on.
the numbers started out as 30 then they went to 60 once she reached the deep sleep and the big one was 113 or something other, could've been a higher number. from what i understand all these numbers change pretty quickly in something like an hour or something other. i didn't get most of it. cause i had a baaad brainfart when he started giving me the numbers and telling me how bad it was....
the doc. told me this at 2pm today and my mind still can't get over it. he showed me chloe's x-rays from the first initial visit a few weeks back. they're baaaaad. there is hardly any kind of passage at all due to the size of her adenoids and tonsils. we could tell things was bad just by looking at her tonsils but we had no clue just how bad.
sooooo. chloe is headed to the ear, nose throat doc. and gets a tosilectomy as soon as she goes back to the new family physician (the one that referred us to the specialist.) he's got to see her first and go from there same as emmy did.
hopefully she pulls through it as well as emmy did.
something i can't understand is since things are this bad with her, why in the hell did the last physician miss it, even after learning she was getting sick so much & was having to use that albuterol, easily winded and has some huge tonsils and and snored like a freight train?<EMOJI seq="1f615">
</EMOJI>we had been worried that something was wrong due to the huge tonsils, how weird she breathed sometimes at night and in the mornings b4 waking, and constant cough and colds, esp. since the colds and coughs got to be more frequent when emmy started school and was bringing home more germs and stuff and the snoring like a freight train sometimes when she was sick and sometimes even when she wasn't. (we never did much or hung out with many folks. mostly stayed home quite a bit.) but we had no idea it was this baaaad.
atleast this info. has clued us in as to why she's so hard to get up in the mornings and cranky all the time even on our (dh's and mine and emmy's) good days....
she aint resting!
:wideeyed::wideeyed::wideeyed::wideeyed::yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes:
