Team Visit

Our morning started early.  Off we went to Syracuse for 2 doctor's appointments.  Nice to get them all done in one trip though.  Today was Cody's yearly team evaluation.  We get to see a slew of doctors and with any luck, walk away with good news.  We got just that!  He did awesome - as always!  He's my big kid and knows he has to go with the flow of things.  First up for the day was dental x-rays and molds.  He did the x-rays and all is well.  We got in the room to do the molds and I told her he had a palate expander in his mouth.  She continued.  I could of told her it wasn't going to work - but hey, I'm not the hygenist.  She mixes it up and in it goes on top.  As he is gagging and hating it but keeping his cool, she pulls it out and YEP, it didn't take.  All of that goop is all stuck to his expander.  We are trying to get it out, not pretty!  Come to find out after our visit with Dr. Dillingham, he had told them to do the x-rays and molds but he said he didn't think he had to tell them to put WAX on the expander so the stuff wouldn't stick to it.  I really am still ticked about that.  Then she did the bottom teeth.  I joked that maybe his loose tooth would fall out.  Sure enough - the mold came out with the tooth in it.  Glad the tooth is out...he likes to hang onto them for dear life.  Dr. Tatum was next although we didn't get to see him.  He got called into a meeting.  The guy that filled in for him was OK however, I didn't get the warm and fuzzy when he didn't even know who Dr. Dillingham was.  Thankfully I really didn't have any major concerns.  Cody has been dorment for surgery for a few years now.  I just know that will change.  It's not "if"...it's "when".  They are thinking bone graft at 8 and jaw surgery at 15-16....of course these are estimates and who knows maybe we will dodge the bullet a 100% and not need either.  Hard to say but not likely that will happen.  Hearing is perfect, met with gentics - nothing new from them, got his pictures taken.  I realized that my kids can't have a camera in front of them and NOT smile!  :)  OOps!  Met with Speech.  Eileen is very happy with him.  He's having a hard time with the /s/ sound still and the /f/ and /v/ sound.  These have a lot to do with placement of tonge and teeth and jaw and all of those go against Cody right now.  So we will practice. 

We had a few hours to kill until we met with Dr. Dillingham so we ate lunch and hit up Target.  Target is where I realized why I DO NOT shop with my husband.  OMG!  He was looking for a backup pair of swim shorts and it took forever.  And he thinks I'm bad to shop with. 

Dr. Dillingham's visit went good.  He moved the wire and bonded it to help push out the front teeth so they stop wearing on the bottom teeth.  Now that Cody has lost the bottom front 2...we can't have his upper teeth wearing on the bottom and causing damage.  He filed down a front baby tooth that is basically dead.  We are waiting on the upper 6 year molars to come in.   He's getting his bottom two now.  When the uppers come in - we will switch out expanders and he will start to wear the head gear.  Time line for that is in about 9-12 months.  Until then, we maintain what we have.  We did find that a piece of the expander wire has broke.  We both think it happened at the dental clinic with the mold disaster.  UGH!  So he repaired what he could and we'll have to watch it.  We don't see him till October! 

I got an awesome shot of the inside of Cody's mouth today...but have to wait to post the picture as I just packed my camera cord.