After our neurologist told us to check Adi's clavicles (collar bones) we went to the radiology department. After a bit of a wait (they were consulting on which angles to get the x-ray done so as to minimize radiation... I am very grateful for the thoughtfulness) we entered the room. By then Adel was sleepy and not in the mood. Combined with having to hold her arms and head down in painful positions... well, she screamed more than I ever heard her scream before.
As soon as I picked her up, she was asleep in my arms.
The neurologist told me that Adi can't have any physical therapy until we clear this up. I, being too efficient for my own good, called Step by Step to report the findings.
Yesterday the neurologist called back and said the x-rays showed
no breaks or healing breaks in Adel's bones. But now, Step by Step wouldn't take me on my word, because since a doubt came up, they have to clear it with the doctor in writing. Which is no big deal... but it cost me a whole bunch of extra phone calls that I could have avoided.
And the question remains... why can't Adel lift her arms? Why does she react in pain when her collar bone is touched? And why no reflexes in her arms?
Poor Adi stayed asleep through the transfer from my arms to the stroller, then to the car seat, out of the car seat and into my arms, being carried to the ENT's office, and then being transferred from my arms to my mother in law's lap. Whew! That was one tired girlie!
I'll summarize our ENT trip briefly. Don't want to relive it. In short, he's clearly not trained to handle kids. He didn't even have an exam table for babies. Dunno why they even accepted us.
Maybe it had something to do with his office being totally empty... no patients at all!
The visit included him grabbing my hands and roughly poking them into Adel's head and body to show me how to hold her (my insistence that he just explain what to do fell on deaf ears until I screamed at him), which caused Adel to cry hysterically and wriggle (she sat perfectly and didn't make a peep at the audiologist who did the same exams), him not being able to check Adel at all and lying about what he supposedly saw, him pushing ear wax deep into the canal and refusing to clean it out, eventually cleaning it out when we told him we will go back to the audiologist tomorrow (he got scared that his lie will be uncovered.)
It was just awful. Never going back THERE again.
It accomplished absolutely nothing. At least this was the first appointment where no new issues were discovered. Heh heh. Not that there aren't any issues... I don't know. But this guy didn't uncover any, so that's a first.
(Some black humor... just laugh along.
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