Recent Doctor's Visits for Cody

On Monday...Cody and I headed to Syracuse to get 2 appointments out of the way.  At our Ortho visit, they moved the wire a little and that was that.  These visits have become quick like that as we are waiting for some adult teeth to come in before we can really start to do much work.  So for now we are maintaining the progress we have made.  The good thing about that is the visit is quick and not that painful for Cody and our time inbetween visits have gotten longer.  We talked about his front teeth.  There is nothing left to these teeth.  They have been worn down as far as they can without disappearing (key word).  Dr. D said we will most likely have to pull these as there is just nothing to grab onto to wiggle them loose.  We left though with a "don't need to see you till March unless something happens".  Awesome!  March...we get the winter off!  Yippee!!!

This is the "progress" we have made!

So after we left Dr. D....we headed down the road for our 6 month check up with Dr. Tatum.  He noticed that his scars were a little pink and asked about that but I told him those only get really pink when Cody has a cold.  He checked out his ears and the right ear we need to keep our eye on.  He couldn't see the tube, saw some fluid and when he did the tympanogram he wasn't liking what he saw.  So he said to watch for ear infections and if we happen to notice the volume of the TV going up.  The tubes may need to be replaced.  After all, these tubes he has had in since he was 2.  Pretty good tubes if you ask me.  So we will watch it.  Hopefully we will get by till summer when we have our team visit again. 

Fast forward to Tuesday night....Cody says to me "Mom, am I supposed to have a tooth here?".  I turn the light on...."um yah you should".  Where did it go?  That has become the million dollar question.  Where is the tooth!  I could rub my finger on the tooth and feel something.  So I took pictures like Dr. D. told me to do and sent them to him. 

This is his mouth now.  See where the wire stops by the teeth - that tooth is gone.  Look at the picture above and the tooth is there.  So I play some email tag with Dr. D.  He was thinking the tooth fell out - I said no.  So instead of driving for an hour we headed to ur local dentist.  It also gave me a piece of mind that I wasn't crazy.  This tooth just didn't fall out.  She took x-rays and sure enough, there is the tooth - IN HIS GUM!  So I emailed Dr. D back this picture:

You see two rows of teeth.  The top teeth are his adult teeth.  The bottom are the baby.  You can see the wire and above that is the tooth in question... "the missing tooth".  So today I talked with Dr. D again.  (Thank god for cameras)  He said that basically as an adult tooth is coming it, it eats away at the root of the baby tooth.  Once the root is gone the baby tooth falls out.  Because Cody's tooth was not a normal shape and did not hang below the gum like a normal tooth it didn't just fall out.  So now we wait for Mother Nature to take it's course and for that big adult tooth above it to move on down and continue to eat away at that baby tooth.  He said that we will probably never have a tooth 'fall out" so now the tooth fairy has to get creative in what we do to honor this tooth.  We will watch the area for any redness or if the wire bother's him.  If nothing we will still go back in March. 

I'm praying for March! 

Oh and if you wanna know the secret to taking that picture of the x-ray......hold it very close to the light bulb and turn off your flash and Presto.....a picture! 

It's been awhile

Wow - it has been a long time since I last wrote on this blog.  Our anniversary.  A whole summer has gone by and a start of school and so much I should of wrote about but didn't.  Over the past couple of weeks I remembered why I started this blog.  It's great to go back and read through things.  What we did, what we saw, what the kids said, doctor's appointments, the list goes on.  I have been tossing around the idea of making a new blog.  I have some how gotten my blog to post to facebook after every post.  While I really don't write anything that I don't care if other's read - what I write is for my benefit.  If other's like to read what we are up to then that is great.  So not sure how long I will keep The Luckey Family but for now it's late and I'm tired and not feeling overly creative to come up with a different name so I'm sticking to this.