4:30am, still waiting to see a doctor...

We have been here since 1:50am. Now it is 4:30am. Mommy is letting me cuddle with Daddy for the moment. I had a bad reflux tonight. That is why we are here. Family night in the ER is not fun. Especially when the ER is busy and a calm, sleepy baby is at the very bottom of the triage list...

Another trip to the ER

Another trip to the ER. This time we took a woo woo ride. I had a bad reflux. So Mommy & Daddy wanted to make sure everything was ok. This all took place at 1:20am. Now it is 4:30am and we are still waiting to see the ER Dr. so we can go home. I am tired, daddy is VERY tired, and poor mommy isn't feeling to well.

Happy Baby

Life is good again. I have my friends and I am a happy Peanut again.

It's Over!!!

The nurse came and found Mommy and Daddy. I am wake now and angry and really frickin' hungry (cut me some slack, the last time I ate anything was at like 2am!!). Mommy is coming in to the Recovery room to feed me right now.

Already done!!!

The procedure is already over. Dr Chin says everything went very well. I am in the recovery room right now. The Doc says that I didn't have any hemangiomas in my bronchial tubes! He showed Mommy & Daddy the pictures while they were eating in the cafeteria...eeewww!

My voice box looks great. It's just that my throat is just a little small in one spot so that's what causes the stridor noise. For those nerds out there, Daddy says to look up Bernoulli's Principle.

The good news is that I will grow out of that before too long. Yay!

Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated

With all apologies to the Ramones. I am going under sedation now. I will soon be just a sleeping baby. This whole thing will take an hour or so. Dr Chin is doing a bronchoscopy but no GI today...Daddy thought that they were going to do both at the same time, but Dr. Chin says that the GI is not really needed for now...

IV in the hand

We made it through the IV step. Mommy had to leave the room. She didnt want me to see her cry. Thats ok I had my Daddy to hold my hand. Then Mommy came back and told me everything is going to be ok.

My Medical Procedure

Just to keep everybody updated, tomorrow Mommy & Daddy are taking medown to Long Beach Children's Hospital to have an endoscopy on my trachea/lungs and also my esophagus/stomach. It is just a precautionary procedure to make sure that I don't have any obstructions or other problems that would be causing my stridor. We should also be able to get final diagnosis as to whether I have Laryngomalacia (soft larynx/"floppy voice box") or not. The main reasons are to make sure that my epiglottis is not too deformed, that I don't have any hemangiomas (warning: graphic pictures) on the inside (I have very mild ones on my leg and also my butt cheek, that are already disappearing).

For this procedure, they will be sticking a fiber-optic camera up my nose and down my throat and into my lungs and stomach. They will be placing me into "deep sedation" which is basically what would be, for an adult, making me really relaxed. I will not be fully "out" but since I'm so young they still call it "deep sedation". I will be semi-conscious but relaxed. It still will not be very pleasant for me or my parents. This is an outpatient procedure, however.

The doctors who will be doing the procedure work with Dr. Elizer Nussbaum, who is a world-renowned pediatric pulminologist. We've met them one time before, and Mommy and Daddy are very comfortable with them.

Daddy promises to keep my blog updated for you throughout the morning.