And it Continues...

So, as if we haven't yet learned, Sophie had another doctor's appointment today which brought on tons of frustration and stress.  She had an appointment with a sleep specialist at 12:15 which was scheduled due to her breath holding during the MRI and snoring.  To start with, I thought it was at the wrong hospital but luckily caught it just as I was leaving work.  Then, we got there right on time but ended up waiting one and half hours for the doctor!  She didn't enter the room until 1:45--my stress level rose about every five minutes as we waited.  Next, she proceeded to diagnose Sophie with Chronic Sinusitis with a current sinus infection that she herself could do nothing for. Her orders were to follow up with our primary care pediatrician to get antibiotics for the infection and then schedule a sleep study for her probable "Sleep Apnea"!

After dropping Sophie back off at daycare, I called her PCP and they would not order the antibiotics without seeing her themselves so we made a  5:00 sick-child appointment ($60 copay) to get the antibiotics we already knew she needed...  In the end, despite my frustration, this turned out to be a good thing.  Her Oxygen sats were low (94% I guess from what Joe saw, he was with her, I was at work) and she had to do breathing treatments for about an hour before her numbers rose enough to go home. The pediatrician believes it is Bronchitis, put her on a strong antibiotic and said to follow up in a week.

Once the infection is clear, we'll schedule the sleep study.  I'm thinking we can make it fun because it's done in the building I work in, so I can play it up as spending the night at mommy's work!  What's more fun than that, right?!

So, what could have been one quick easy appointment turned into three hours in doctors offices for Sophie today!!

Joe did get some pictures of the breathing treatment, she was a champ through it all!