Arianna
14-01-2011, 08:24 PM
I've posted this over on the Parenting Chat as well as it sort of belongs there, maybe even on health, but this is where I consider home to be on Mumszone.
Eithne had several appointments today - 2 for her eyes - one with the orthoptist and one with her eye specialist. She is at risk for an infection behind her eye because of the arthritis she suffers from in her knee. She is more at risk for getting the infection because 1) she is young, 2) she is a girl and 3) because her ana result is positive (we didn't find out it was positive until we saw them at Alder Hey) - so she will be having checkups probably every 3 to 4 months now until she's 8 (at least we were told it was 8 last time).
Then we had to hurry on over to Alder Hey for her checkup on her knee. I noticed in the car her right knee seemed to be a bit bigger than her left, and DH saw that it was while we were in the waiting room at the hospital. When the specialist got to checking her knees, her right knee is indeed starting to swell up again, so she is having another steroid injection on the 24th.
I'm guessing we've caught it at the beginning of the swelling, but it's been almost a year since it first started to swell. We had hoped that she would only ever need that one injection she had last year - but I guess not. She is one of those children who will need more than 1 in her life time.
We then go back in April again for her normal 3 monthly checkup.
Arianna
Eithne had several appointments today - 2 for her eyes - one with the orthoptist and one with her eye specialist. She is at risk for an infection behind her eye because of the arthritis she suffers from in her knee. She is more at risk for getting the infection because 1) she is young, 2) she is a girl and 3) because her ana result is positive (we didn't find out it was positive until we saw them at Alder Hey) - so she will be having checkups probably every 3 to 4 months now until she's 8 (at least we were told it was 8 last time).
Then we had to hurry on over to Alder Hey for her checkup on her knee. I noticed in the car her right knee seemed to be a bit bigger than her left, and DH saw that it was while we were in the waiting room at the hospital. When the specialist got to checking her knees, her right knee is indeed starting to swell up again, so she is having another steroid injection on the 24th.
I'm guessing we've caught it at the beginning of the swelling, but it's been almost a year since it first started to swell. We had hoped that she would only ever need that one injection she had last year - but I guess not. She is one of those children who will need more than 1 in her life time.
We then go back in April again for her normal 3 monthly checkup.
Arianna