The tooth fairy lays in wait
Samantha has her first loose tooth, a lower central incisor. She is so excited about this she can hardly stand it. She asked me tonight if the tooth fairy would come and pull it out while she was sleeping. I couldn't tell whether she thought that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
It's still too early to tell if her knee is getting better or if the medication is starting to work.
Last night she had a pretty bad night, waking up at 2 am crying almost as hard as I've ever seen over her knee hurting, despite having had Motrin at bedtime. I gave her some Tylenol to help dull the pain, but it still took a good half hour for her to calm down and be able to sleep again. On the other hand, Amy says that she had almost no OTC medication today -- a dose of Motrin at 1 pm from our nanny even though she hadn't been asking for it (it's sometimes proven wise to give it to her preemptively before she's in severe pain) and nothing else all day until bedtime. No Motrin, no Tylenol, and no complaints about her knee hurting. It's hard to express what a huge development this is unless you've lived with a small child who's been in chronic pain for months.
She went to bed late tonight and based on last night's experience we gave her some Motrin just to improve the odds that she makes it all the way through the night. We can live with her getting it once a day for a while if she needs it -- it's maxing out on the dosage every day for weeks at a time that gets us worried about unpleasant side effects.
Overall I think the jury is still out on her knee right now. Unless the pain largely disappears between now and next week I think we're going to go ahead with the lower lumbar MRI that the neurologist ordered, and I still want to see a second opinion about the possibility of intra-articular osteoid osteoma, since the description of symptoms fit Samantha's condition very well, and it's a form of osteoma that's evidently diagnostically very challenging.
On an entirely different topic, Joshua just loves corn on the cob. He holds it in his little hands, looks intently at it, then lunges for it and tries to take bites out of it with his four tiny incipient teeth. He does pretty well for himself, eating almost an entire ear tonight. Of course he ended up with corn kernels all over this hands and face, down his clothes, in his hair, and -- I'm not making this up -- inside his ears. But he was an awfully happy little boy, and I have to say it was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while.
It's still too early to tell if her knee is getting better or if the medication is starting to work.
Last night she had a pretty bad night, waking up at 2 am crying almost as hard as I've ever seen over her knee hurting, despite having had Motrin at bedtime. I gave her some Tylenol to help dull the pain, but it still took a good half hour for her to calm down and be able to sleep again. On the other hand, Amy says that she had almost no OTC medication today -- a dose of Motrin at 1 pm from our nanny even though she hadn't been asking for it (it's sometimes proven wise to give it to her preemptively before she's in severe pain) and nothing else all day until bedtime. No Motrin, no Tylenol, and no complaints about her knee hurting. It's hard to express what a huge development this is unless you've lived with a small child who's been in chronic pain for months.
She went to bed late tonight and based on last night's experience we gave her some Motrin just to improve the odds that she makes it all the way through the night. We can live with her getting it once a day for a while if she needs it -- it's maxing out on the dosage every day for weeks at a time that gets us worried about unpleasant side effects.
Overall I think the jury is still out on her knee right now. Unless the pain largely disappears between now and next week I think we're going to go ahead with the lower lumbar MRI that the neurologist ordered, and I still want to see a second opinion about the possibility of intra-articular osteoid osteoma, since the description of symptoms fit Samantha's condition very well, and it's a form of osteoma that's evidently diagnostically very challenging.
On an entirely different topic, Joshua just loves corn on the cob. He holds it in his little hands, looks intently at it, then lunges for it and tries to take bites out of it with his four tiny incipient teeth. He does pretty well for himself, eating almost an entire ear tonight. Of course he ended up with corn kernels all over this hands and face, down his clothes, in his hair, and -- I'm not making this up -- inside his ears. But he was an awfully happy little boy, and I have to say it was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while.
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