We took William and Keisha to their four year wellness visit with the pediatrician on Thursday. From past experience, we knew that it would be a long adventure, so I picked the latest appointment slot available (3 p.m.).
Earlier in the day, I had my own doctor appointment. The appointment went okay, I guess you can [...]

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I have not given any updates on the children and their hearing issues in a while, so here we go. The week of July 21, Keisha had her follow up visit to her ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctor. We were concerned about whether or not she was also going to need tubes [...]

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Last Thursday, we took William to his ENT appointment. The doctors and audiologists were very thorough as they always are. One doctor cleaned the wax out of William’s ears and used a microscope with a wand to get the wax that was very deep. She said that it looks like at least [...]

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Over the last two weeks I have noticed a gradual decline in William’s hearing. Yes, William’s twin sister, Keisha just went through the same thing. At first JT and I thought Wiliam was just being hard headed and not paying attention on purpose. Then I started to see some of the same behavior and patterns [...]

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Since I last wrote here, I was scared to death about Keisha’s lack of hearing. Thankfully since then, her hearing has drastically improved. From March to Mid May the hearing worsened by the week, then suddenly in May things started to get better and this was even before the ENT appointment. [...]

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Tomorrow, JT and I take Keisha to her pediatrician. In December, Keisha failed her hearing test at school. After the school reported that to us, I immediately called her doctor. He suggested to allow 6 weeks then come in so he can check out her ears. Hopefully, during the 6 weeks… if it was fluid in there then it would have time to go away. Just over six weeks had passed and then William and Keisha caught the flu. William struggled with the flu at lot worse than Keisha did, but they both were out of school for most of that week until the following Monday (last week in February to the first week in March if I remember correctly).

That delayed JT and I getting Keisha to the doctor. Then last month, William and Keisha had pink eye. See the previous post. Yes, we have had a few obstacles in the way. Also at that appointment last month, the doctor flushed the twins’ ears out so they are pretty wax free at the moment. About 3 weeks ago, I began to really notice that something was not quite right about Keisha’s hearing. I was braiding her hair while she sat down in her Dora the Explorer pink chair. With her back toward me, she was still very close yet when I talked in a normal speaking voice, she did not respond. I thought that she was being silly and heard me but just refused to respond. No, my baby girl could not hear me.

Keisha’s hearing seems to have gotten worse since then. JT and I find ourselves having to communicate to her louder (we try not to yell because that makes her think we are mad at her starts to cry) and give her lots of eye contact while clearly pronouncing words. We talked to Keisha’s head start teacher about this as well. She also said she would work on more one on one help and lots of eye contact. Keisha frequently gets frustrated at home when she cannot hear what is going on. This breaks my heart.

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I really did not mean to be gone for so long, but things happen like that.

A couple of good friends have positively pressured me into posting. Peer pressure is dangerous folks.

My overall health is okay, but my sanity is always questionable. The twins are getting over a cold and *drumroll*… pink eye. JT took them to the hospital yesterday and we now have eyedrops for them. William and Keisha are doing a lot better today than yesterday. They just fell asleep to Backyardigans playing in their room. Which reminds me that I need to turn their television off because I can hear it playing now. Pablo is yelling something… or is that Tyrone?

I am tired a lot these days, but according to Kat Williams, when you are a parent you are always tired.

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I decided to put all the linkage on a separate page. For now, all I have is the blogroll, but I will add more.

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Just under two weeks ago, JT and I saw a news report on Fox 2 St. Louis about a new free drug program at Schnucks Pharmacy. The prescription is free regardless of insurance provider.

The free Prescription Drug Program for Generic Oral Antibiotics includes up to a 21-day supply, as well as prescribed refills, of the following seven classes of antibiotics:

For Drug Descriptions and Item Sizes included in the program go to the site and click on a drug title for more information:

• Amoxicillin (Generic for Amoxil) - capsules and oral suspension

• Ampicillin - capsules and oral suspension

• Ciprofloxacin (Generic for Cipro) - tablets

• Doxycycline - capsules

• Erythromycin - tablets, oral suspension and capsules

• Penicillin - tablets and oral suspension

• Trimeth/Sulfa (Generic for Septra or Bactrim)

Schnucks Pharmacies are located throughout Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Wisconsin. To find out if a location is near you go to: http://www.schnucks.com/stores/query.asp?pharmacy=Y&feature=pharmacy

I am very excited about this program. JT and I will be going to Schnucks tomorrow to get penicillin filled for William. Because he has sickle cell disease, he takes penicillin twice a day to help fight infection. He has been taking it since he was 2 months old.

Any money saved due to this free program will help out the family’s expenses.

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A few nights ago, I took the Nyquil gel capsules as I said I would. Why I took it at midnight, I have no clue. Thankfully JT was supportive and took care of the twins while I slept most of Sunday. I really needed the sleep to get the medicine and cold out of my system. The combination of the two worked very well. I also have not noticed any negative effects from me taking my multi-vitamin late at night. I was a bit worried at first because some vitamins give you a boost of energy. On the other hand, I will try to not make an effort of taking them late, because I am pretty sure that taking your vitamins in the morning just… makes sense.

I still have this blog entry in the back of my mind that I have been wanting to write for a week now. Maybe I can get it out of my system tomorrow.

When Tee Tee brought the twins home this evening, William ran to me with his arms open. Keisha pretended that I did not even exist. The nerve of her… well I know that she did that to just get to me. So I got her back by saying, “William… do you see Keisha? I cannot find her!! Oh my goodness, where is Keisha?” And I went on and on and on for a few minutes as if I could not see her and she was right in front of me. I made it into a playful game. I am not *that* evil.

Then all of a sudden, Keisha knew that I existed and she threw herself into my lap. I said, “oh there is my baby girl,” and I hugged her. We could not have a happy ending… Keisha showed me her newly acquired habit. She looked up at me and rolled her eyes. I looked down at her and said, “umm Keisha, you do not want to roll your eyes with Mama. I just might have to knocked those back into position for you.”

She quickly rolled them back in place.

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