And I thought I was DONE w/ doctors!

After so many doctor visits w/ TTC, IVF and the pregnancy, I thought I was done!

Uhm.. yea, I must've forgotten about the 2 little men that have entered my life and will most definitely be getting sick at some point (or several points). Such is the case, this past week.

I decided, after hearing some nagging that the boys are still hungry after their bottle, to give cereal to them. I put half a babyspoon in each bottle and called it a day. There! That'll work until we introduce solids!! Nope! They got diarrhea. BAD diarrhea. So we stopped the cereal immediately, except the diarrhea didn't stop eemee-dee-it-lee! Grr.. Poor little yOyo was getting really bad dirty dipes and hOops wasn't far behind. But I figured it'd go away after a couple of days. The cereal had just irritated their stomachs. MIL calls HunHun and tells him that yOyo has had 3 dirty dipes before noon, so off they go to the pedi's office. The pedi thought it might've been the cereal too, or some virus that 'must' be going around b/c there are other kids w/ diarrhea coming in too. I pay no mind to the virus comment b/c we had no other symptoms..

Until Sunday (almost a week later).

My little hOops wakes up w/ a fever. :( The pedi's office says to give him tylenol and we made an appointment for later that afternoon. 2 hours later, the fever is still there and higher, so off I go to the pedi's before my appointment. Luckily, they take me in before they left to lunch and hOops gets poked for a CBC. :( WBC comes back good, no infection. It's a virus. Keep him hydrated and it should pass in a couple of days. Fast forward to 1am, hOops is BURNING UP despite the day long doses of tylenol and still has bad poop. Off went HunHun while I stayed w/ yOyo. My baby of babies had another b/w done and a cath! :( No infection found again, it's just a stomach virus that is highly contagious. Keep the other twin separate, no sharing of anything! They come back about 6am and yOyo wakes up at 730a.. for the day.

hOops' fever FINALLY broke on Tuesday morning. It was lower on Monday, but he was still warm. However, there are still bad poops about! From both the boys. They have a good one, and then a bad one comes during the day.

2 weeks ago, after a suspicion I had, we went the Orthopedist for yOyo's tilt and he was diagnosed w/ Torticollis. It basically just means that his muscle from his clavicle to his jaw didn't stretch in utero b/c of the crammed quarters, so his head tilts to a preferred side (his right). He can turn his head both ways, but I suspected he couldn't turn it FULL range both ways. My little yOyo had x-rays done and had his head turned and moved while he cried bloody murder. I felt so bad, but knew he had to be checked. :( Well, turns out he needs PT. Today was the first appointment and after assessment decided that he'll need to go to PT 2x/week for 12 weeks. :( PLUS home exercises at every diaper change. HunHun taught me the exercises before we bathed him and it broke my heart that he cried as I stretched him.

We have another appointment to make w/ a cranio doctor. Due to the Tort, they want him (and I'm taking hOops too) to be checked for Plagiocephaly, which is the fusing of the skull bones too soon, and causing a flathead due to early fusing as well as their facial bones to deform. If they suspect that this is happening, then they'll need to be fitted for helmets. :( *sigh*

I know it's necessary if diagnosed, so I get it, but still, it's hard. I can break down about diagnoses and doctor appointments, but at the moment I'm there and paying attention and understand that it's for the best. That's how I was when I was going through my IF stuff. Every doctor visit was hard, but I cried afterward. At the visits, I was alert and paying attention so I didn't miss anything. That's how I feel now. That I can't sit here and cry or let it get to me. I have to on my feet and ready to do what I have to do for my boys.

Anyway, that's the update for now. I'll try and keep it up to date. I went back and read what was happening a year ago, since I was starting my IVF and I realized I was happy that I blogged about it. So it made me think that I totally gotta do it w/ the boys and how we're making it w/ them. A year from now, I'll read and be happy i blogged about it too. And so on.