Good news! This morning I received a phone call from Lori, the speech and feeding therapist who Olivia saw when she was in the PICU at UW. She saw the request from Dr. Erickson, Olivia’s GI doctor, to do the swallow study and upper GI study, and that it wasn’t scheduled until Dec. 10. She called because she had the availability to do it tomorrow, and thought it would be good to get it done sooner. So…Olivia has an appointment at 1 to have the swallow study done. They will feed her barium with her sitting next to a live x-ray machine. They can then watch her swallow the barium and watch it travel down her esophagus, through her stomach and though her intestines. This will tell them if there are any underlying medical issues that would be causing her to not want to eat. The speech therapist will be watching the whole thing too. This will be good because Lori saw her eating when she was eating the very best, so she will be able to tell if there are differences in her eating now.
Olivia will also see Dr. Green, her pulmonologist tomorrow. That appointment is at 1:30, but luckily in the same place as the swallow study. Olivia will get her flu shot booster and her first RSV shot. It would be nice if we could turn her oxygen down a little too!
Because the appointments are so close together we will have the swallow study done, go to the appointment with Dr. Green and then go back to talk about the swallow study with Lori. Hopefully we’ll get some good suggestions that will help get Olivia’s feeding back on track! I will update sometime this weekend on how the appointments go.
{Spring 2023}
2 months ago
4 comments:
Becky!
Awesome you got the appointment sooner! I hate waiting for these appointments. I hope the swallow study goes well ... just an FYI, Caden had a reaction the Barium and puked for 6 hours straight after his study - not fun! They said kids rarely have a reaction to the barium - of course Caden was one of the lucky ones!
Good luck with your appointments tomorrow!
Trisha
Good luck tomorrow! I hope it brings some long-awaited answers for you.
Good luck with the appointments. I really hope they go wonderfully! Maybe the oxygen can come down???? Good luck and post when you can. Thinking about you!
Good luck with the appointments today!! I hope you get a lot of good news!
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