Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Irritated....

*WARNING!*
The following post contains pitiful dialogue.........



You know when you have one of those days when nothing goes right? Well I've had almost 3 months of it and I'm tired!
Brookes birth was such a wonderful event for our family, we love her to death and wouldn't trade her for anything. BUT.....Brooke was born with her own set of frusterating trials. Brooke entered the world with a heart murmer that has now resolved itself, for the last three months she has vomited EVERYTHING she eats, broken out in rashes, had terribly painful baby gas, been extreemly irritable, and just been plain miserable! I feel bad for her!
After numerous apointments with her doctor and some hard pushing I finally got a referal to a gastroenterologist, and after a month of waiting, Brooke finally had her apointment on monday. I'm glad I pushed for this apointment.
We now have a game plan.......
Brooke was diagnosed with GERD (gastroesophogeal reflux disease) so we doubled her reflux meds, upped her to twice a day and are giving her maalox in between. She also has a "probable" milk/soy allergy. (The specialist says that she has all the signs but doesn't want to test her because of her age.) So we switched her from soy to the hypoallergenic, super expensive formula. The doctor even wrote up a prescription for it! Needless to say...... our insurance wont cover it. :( We qualify for WIC, but now I have to jump through even more hoops to try and get them to cover it.
I know in the end everything will work out, and that we are givin trials to strenghthen us. But right now? Right now I want to everything to go my way.
Right now all I want to do is go back to bed.