Mean mommy missed my teeth! I am Captian underpants!

Well we just found out that Annika has to go under for teeth repair. I figured she had been teething because her appetite went down this last week and she has verbally been complaining about her teeth. Well I look in her mouth today after she fought with me when I was trying to brush her teeth(which she never does because she loves the toothpaste) I open up her mouth to see what teeth were coming in and giving her such a hard time and bam! Right there in front of me is a broken tooth, the fourth one from the front to the left. A huge chip off of it, almost 1/4 of the tooth, you can see root. No wonder the poor little thing has been complaining. I feel like a bad mom, I just assumed it was teeth coming in, not roots exposed.
Well we took her to the pediatric dentist ASAP. He took one look and saw that tooth, plus another crack in one tooth on the opposite side. He also stated the lowers looked week and might need caps.
So we are scheduled for Wednesday (time unknown as of yet) for dental surgery, which she will be knocked out for.
Poor little thing. Thank God for booby juice, she sure has been nursing alot lately.
The good thing is she is still full of energy. She loves putting on clothes from the laundry basket (as I am folding them) This day it was Parker's underpants.

The enzyme fairies are happy!

Well since coming back from Toronto, we increased Annika's enzymes. Toronto's biggest concern was that Annika was falling off the growth chart.
We went to see Dr. Morgan today for a check up and vaccinations. Dr. Morgan's scales have always matched up with Toronto's and she weighed in at 8.87 kg, that's over a kg weight gain in 30 days. An amazing weight gain, over 2 lbs! Yahoo, the enzyme fairies are happy!
Eat baby girl eat!

Annika's first infant pulmonary function test.

Well we had Annika's first pulmonary function test in Toronto on the 14th of October. Besides her waking up during the test, everything went well. Annika's cultures came back negative and her blood checked out normal. Her FEV's were great!
So besides increasing her enzymes because they are concerned about her weight. All went well.Here is a picture of our big girl looking over the Big City.

I Ho , I Ho, It's off to Toronto we go!

We are heading to Toronto Sick Kids next week for Annika's first pulmonary function test. We are going to the cabin for the holiday and then heading from there to a hotel for an over night stay. We are taking Parker so he can be with his little sis'
, they are each other's best friends right now. She screams every day that he leaves for school. Annika is the first to great him when he gets home.
In November I have an appointment with Dr. Howard for my motility issues with the bowel. Hopefully we can get some answers then.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Drop us a line and let us know how you found us, and if this site was helpful?
God Bless

A trip to hell and back

Well it started over 4 weeks ago. I had a pain in my lower right side. I tried to ignore it, but it didn't go away. Finally on August 25th, it got so bad, I was rushed into the local hospital. The doctor took blood and couldn't find anything wrong, so he was going to send me home.
I remember starting to cry and begging, you can't send me home like this with two kids, I have been puking from the pain and can barely stand up!
They kept me. What we thought would be a few nights stay turned into a trip to hell.
I was at Met for two weeks. A horrible stay away from my kids and husband! I pumped 4-5 times a day for Annika, while she got moved from family member to family member( at least we have the help!)
My poor husband was going insane trying to keep me sane and run a household and care for 2 kids.
They ended up doing a colonoscopy(which was crystal clear), and laproscopy for lady problems(which I knew it wasn't!) Well when all the results came back negative, they released me. Even though my barium x-ray show very slow motility. It took 3 days for barium to pass from the upper colon to the lower. It should only take 24 to 36 hours max. Hello Windsor, we have no motility specialist here so we can't prescribe the appropriate drugs. WHAT!
I was sent home on a pain patch and gravol.
Four days later I was at Leamington hospital(for another week) under the supervision of my family doctor who put me on two motility drugs, and imagine this I crapped like crazy and the pain went away!
I have an appointment (not set yet....arrgghh!) with a cf motility specialist in London, so we will see.
Lungs are still clear(and will stay that way if I have anything to say about it....lol)
Annika is doing awesome, she is walking everywhere and go, go, go girl. We call her Hurricane Annie....because she leaves a path of distruction everywhere she goes!!!!LOL! Gotta love her.
We all have colds, but are dealing with them fine.
Hopefully I won't be so disconnected from everyone, a family member got me a laptop, so I could contact everyone from the hospitals.
For all those who had supported us through this last visit to the hospital....thank you so much. We couldn't have done it with out you.
God Bless!