So the whole fam-damily has some medical issues on the go right now.
Steve had day surgery today to remove 2 golf ball sized lipomas (fat tumors) from his back this morning. It was done under local anesethetic. Poor guy. I would have at least scammed some valium out of it had it been me. And they sent him home and told him to take tylenol and/or ibuprofen. What do people have against good ol' narcotics these days?
Jesse has had a rough month. First it was 2 solid weeks of diarrhea....foul, watery green, burnt rubber tire smelling diarrhea. He wasn't "sick" though. No other signs or symptoms. He stopped peeing as much, but with 4-7 diarrhea poops a day, that would be expected. We took him to the Janeway ER, and the ER doc pretty well laughed at us since the kid is the picture of health. He had no idea what was causing the diarrhea....didn't think it was a bug because Jesse was otherwise healthy. Jesse had a vax appointment with our family doc a few days later and she delayed the vax because of it. Had it not gone away on its own a few days later she was going to have us come in to culture it. We had a return appointment this past Tuesday for his vax, but the doc noticed Jesse's tonsils were red while examining him. So she took a throat swab and lo-and-behold, it grew some Group B Strep. Not a big problem. It's usually not even treated unless it's causing problems. But she wanted to be cautious and prescribed amoxil anyways. So we have to wait another 2 weeks and then try again for that vax.
As for me....I've got some weird joint issues going on. About a month after Jesse's birth, I started noticing a lot of joint pain in my knees, hips, shoulders, wrists, etc...I figured it was just the relaxin hormone leaving my system and causing some temporary stiffness in my joints. My doc gave me a req to go get some bloodwork done to rule out any freaky medical conditions, but I never did go get it done. I would have had to find someone to watch Jesse for me, and that's a bit difficult. Plus, I never really tried that hard. Anywho, the joint pain seemed to disappear on its own around 3 month post-partum, confirming (so I thought) my hypothesis that it was the declining relaxin levels. Fast-forward to last weekend, and I woke up one morning with a very sore right hand (this had been going on for about a month). I took a good looks at my fingers and noticed my ring finger on my right hand was different. The proximal joint is rather swollen on the sides....very much like the arthritic hands of an 80 year old granny. And the other joints hurt badly too. So my doc ordered some x-rays of my hands. I got those done last Thursday. I also went for bloodwork on Monday. I still don't have the results back yet, but I have an appointment this coming Tuesday to find out what's up. I'm hoping it'll show something (to explain the pain and swelling) that's easily treated. I would really rather NOT going on any medication right now that would necessitate me having to give up breastfeeding. It's just not an option for me.
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