Baby diary: 53 weeks

[petronia]

 Another week, another mystery fever. :P He was supposed to get vaccinated yesterday but that's now been bumped til Monday. I'll keep him home until he sees the doctor on Thursday morning, at which point there will probably be nothing to diagnose just like last week, but my mother is now demanding blood tests.

The birthday party went well! I baked an eggless 6" yogurt cake plus cupcakes (due to an allergy requirement), which frankly was not a success -- too dry even with fruit addition and over-baked -- but strawberry buttercream hides a multitude of sins. The yoga class kids came plus O. and S. with their parents. Alan was befuddled that there were so many people in the house and panicked if I was not in sight, but loosened up after a while and seemed to enjoy himself. Of course, perhaps a first birthday party is more for the parents than it is for the kids.

Comments

[perevision]

Yay, happy birthday Alan! Strawberry buttercream sounds delicious.

[petronia]

<3

[marej]

For the record, I'm with your mom. I made Jake's doctor to do blood tests for Jake, too. Still do annually, or so. (because my mom was an MD before move to Canada). The doc didn't like it, but you know what, the amount of patients they see, things get missed if there's no test to back it up. I think Jake's doctor is amazing, with years and years of experience but even he missed things. I'm the mom and it's my responsibility to follow up on things. I heard a million times that general blood tests don't show anything, but they do. It's not about anything other than cost savings and if Alan is running fevers there's certainly cause to run the tests. That's my 2 cents anyway. Also, clearly I have feeeeelings on the subject, lol.

[petronia]

I read your comment while waiting for the doctor this morning and it made me feel better about it, tbh! Anyway, Alan got a physical check and had no symptoms, so the doctor punted the issue and said that if I wanted diagnostics I should discuss them with our usual family doctor (who's on Xmas vacation). The general feeling seems to be that a baby who is going to daycare should expect to be out half the time with this or that. And indeed it could be worse, given that since Alan started in September there's been a bunch of cases of gastroenteritis, followed by a round of head lice, and now conjunctivitis. :P

[marej]

Of course they expect that. It's not their kid, they are not the ones listening to him struggling to breathe through stuffy nose in the middle of the night. They are also, probably right, but when it came to my sanity, I'd rather cross the ts and dot the is and don't miss something in the early stages. Jake's blood test when he was around 1yo showed that his iron was low, when there weren't any other symptoms. I actually, until Jake was like four or something--oh the silly things we do--trekked all the way downtown to SickKids to do his tests, because I was paranoid that in a regular clinic they won't know how to do blood tests on babies (don't even ask). But yeah, his doc dismissed his cough as nothing until it turned into full blown pneumonia. To doc's defence 4 MDs (my mom included) couldn't hear it, it was only obvious when his fever spiked to to crazy numbers and the doc sent him to xray. My weird child also had completely asymptomatic bouts of strep. Lol. I'm honestly not trying to scare you, it's mostly self-justification of why I drive Jake's physician insane and make him do an annual blood work.

[petronia]

Poor Jake! That's actually the example I used with the doctor because it happened to me -- the cough that seemed like nothing plus random fevers that turned out to be pneumonia. And argh, tbh I had my blood taken x number of times at the same clinic where I go with Alan, and I have not-very-apparent veins, and let's say some of the nurses were better about using the butterfly needle than others. =_= It might be worthwhile for me to take him to Children's for blood work too, if only because I'd rather not wait until an actual emergency to get the hospital card done there.

Alan has yet another cold, btw: he was fine from last Wednesday through yesterday evening but woke up with a runny nose. At least there's no fever, and his appetite is enormous. *crosses fingers*

[belecrivain]

Happy birthday to A!

[petronia]

Thank you! <3