Weigh In

Aiden had an appointment at 1:40pm today with Dr. Pediatrician. We left the house at 1:00pm, giving us plenty of time to be at the office. Well, it would have been plenty of time to be at the office had there not been a non-fatality accident on the BA Expressway (Highway 51 going from where we live to Tulsa). This is a four lane highway with exit/service roads every half mile. I was in the middle lane of hell. All 5 lanes were at a complete stop. The traffic was so bad that the tow truck had to have a police escort. (Yes, this is the SAME highway we travel daily to take Aiden to school.)

The 35 minute drive took an HOUR!! We were stopped in traffic for 40 minutes. Aiden pretty much got p@ssed after 10 minutes. Oh and if you have never sat in traffic with a 2 year old heart patient who just recently underwent open heart surgery in 100* temperatures, I highly recommend it if you want to hear screaming for the next hour. While we were waiting in traffic, I called Dr. Pediatrian's office to inform them that there was no way we were going to make our appointment at the scheduled time. The woman at the call center said that they had received a few calls like mine from various other moms who were in the same lane I was in. All this over a Suburban who rear ended a Silverado. Nice.... I will not go into my opinion of rubberneckers/gawkers.

We got to Aiden's appointment 30 minutes late. Fortunately, my message had made it to someone higher up. Because we only sat in the waiting area less than 5 minutes. Dr. Pediatrician's nurse came out and immediately retrieved Aiden. She then wanted to weigh Aiden on the stand up scales, but Aiden didn't want to cooperate and Dr. Pediatrician was standing in the hallway while she went to weigh Aiden in the bucket scale. Only Dr. Pediatrician wanted Aiden stripped down to only the necessities. She wanted Aiden to account for every single ounce produced on the scales.

20 LBS EVEN!!!

3 oz in two days.

I also took the xrays from Monday's cardiac appointment. Dr. Pediatrician looked at them though the room light. And I told her about being able to see the pleurodesis patch on the light box. She retained said xrays for training purposes and to have a base xray for future use. I so wanted to scan in that set of xrays since Aiden isn't "put back together" the same way as his first heart surgery. There are no wires holding him together this time; it's fishing line and not even visible on xrays. Honestly.

Dr. Pediatrician feels that Aiden can go back to school. So after the appointment (which, yes took an hour), we went to school to talk to Miss Kate. Tomorrow is "water day" at school, but Aiden can't get his chest wet and since he loves to play in water, he will not be attending tomorrow. Also, I needed some fears of mine to be put to rest. Kids are kids and not always, you know, paying attention to who/what is sitting on the floor.

So Miss Kate will talk to the nurse and the therapy staff to see what they think about Aiden maybe going a few hours on Monday, just to see how he does. It is the last week of school until the new year begins next month. And Aiden misses school and his friends. He is getting bored at home. Tomorrow, Aiden will have an "easy therapy day" (his first since surgery) with his EI therapist Karrie just to test the waters.

Since there were no kids in class when we got there, Aiden got Miss Kate, Miss Amy and Miss Lindsay all to himself. Aiden loves Miss Amy, they share a love of Jeff Gordon and NASCAR. And they got to observe Aiden playing by himself and the things he has been learning. He is doing really well at pretend play and solving problems.

This morning as I was tieing my shoe laces, Aiden came up and decided to "help". So now he is showing interest in learning how to tie. His "dress me shoes" from Beyond Play are going to come in handy now.