November 1st, 2007 by gpurrenhage
So we’ve been a little lazy about posting. Sorry.Last Thursday’s doctor appointment was pretty frustrating. When we told Mason’s dentist that he can pop his feeding plate out with his tongue, he was very insistent that we don’t let him use it anymore. He’s quite concerned that Mason will pop it out and choke on it. Mason’s surgeon, on the other hand, was very insistent at the last appointment that Mason wear the plate as much as possible. He also won’t eat without it (not that he had been eating much at all!). The final consensus was that we were to keep the plate in *only* when Mason eats, and then take it out right away. He doesn’t mind that at all….especially in the middle of the night. 
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October 20th, 2007 by gpurrenhage
We had a bit of a rough week. Mason was having a hard time eating, and we spent most of the week pulling our hair out trying to figure out why. Is he in pain? Does he have gas? Is he associating the bottle with his medicine? Will he eat cereal? Will he eat applesauce?
We finally discovered that if we held the bottle on the left side of his mouth (his more developed side), he ate (slightly) better, so we decided that he must not want to eat without his feeding plate.
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October 11th, 2007 by gpurrenhage
Mason got his bandages off today!!! At least for a while. We had to put them back on (and we’re still working on how to get the nasal stints back in–quite a project).
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October 9th, 2007 by gpurrenhage
We’ve been struggling a bit with managing Mason’s pain this week. He started out doing very well on just Tylenol and Ibuprofin, but by about Friday he was definitely showing signs of being uncomfortable. We suspected that he was either developing a tolerance, or that somehow the stronger meds from surgery had just finally phased out, so we stepped up to mixing Tylenol with Codeine into the rotation.
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October 5th, 2007 by apurrenhage
Mason is doing very well. Probably better than Mom and Dad at this point…. . He’s up every few hours for pain medicine and really won’t sleep for longer than two hour stretches, but God is good and we are so happy with Mason’s progress.
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