An update on Xavier

Many many things to update you on regarding my boy. I hope after reading this you will all be forgiving about why I am so behind on everyone's blogs haha. I know you all are anyway but I feel really bad! I have caught up on most of your blogs today though, I promise haha.

Xavier has had so many doctors appointments this week. Appointment number one was on Tuesday at the paediatritian. You all might remember that when Xavier's daycare brought up the issue of his delayed motor skills, they reccommended taking him to see a paed. Soon after the eye specialist uncovered his eye problems and wanted the paed appt to be delayed for a few months so we could get Xavier some glasses and see if any improvement came from that first. So we delayed the appt and saw the paed on Tues. He said because the original paperwork from the daycare, the health nurse and the GP came from November, he can see that since then he has come ahead with his motor skills in leaps and bounds. He is confident we can put the delays he has had down to his vision problems and he sees no serious issues with Xavier. He has referred Xavier to have a hearing test next week but it is purely routine and we don't expect anything to come of that. He said while we are here we may as well do a hearing test since it is free and takes only half an hour. He did say there is still some delay and some hesitance in his motor skills and to help him gain more confidence he has reccommended Xavier undertake some physio work by a special children's occupational therapist. So we are just waiting on the OT to get back to us.

Wednesday's appointment was for the eye specialist. About two months ago at Xavier's last appt there we were told that we would have to start patching his good eye to try to increase the strength in the lazy one. We have been doing that and Xavier has been coping well. We had to go back on Weds to see how the eye is progressing from the patching. Unfortuneately the specialist feels that the patching is not improving things much and has decided Xavier will need to have eye surgery. This will happen within the next two or three months. They will be adjusting Xavier's eye muscles so that hopefully as well as straightening the eye, it will also start working better. I was very proud of him as once they decided on surgery Xavier then had to endure about an hour of testing and poking and prodding. This was because measurements had to be made of the eye so they know how many millimetres the muscles will need to be adjusted once they get into the operating theatre. Xavier was so brave and only cried a little bit. Brave boy! His mummy is not feeling so brave about the surgery though!!!

Appointment number three was today because for the last week Xavier has had a slight sniffle. Nothing serious just a bit of a runny nose and some sneezing. Then last night he seemed miserable with a slight fever. This morning he got up and had still a slight fever but just seemed to be feeling really sick and he also had a bright red blotchy rash on one cheek and across his forehead too. I took him to the doctor and he has a virus called slap cheek. I had never heard of it before. Thankfully it's not serious for him but gee he is not a happy camper.

As for me things are going fine following my surgery. My GYN said that some cramping and bleeding following the surgery is normal and it can often take two to three months to settle. I have had both bleeding and cramping but nothing major and I am feeling pretty good.

Love to you all.
Jo xoxoxox