In Birmingham there was a governor...

Today and yesterday were very full action packed days. 

Yesterday we got up at 4AM. We arrived in Birmingham on time! YAY for us. We find our way downtown and to the address we were given. So we pull up in front of the building and see that the parking lot is roped off and nobody is inside the building. OK, we are early. We figure we are the first appointment of the day. So we wait a few minutes. So I decide to call my voicemail and listen to the message again we got on Sunday night in reference to this appointment. The first time I listened to it, I couldn't hear it and figured it said what the other calls say, which is to get there 30 minutes early to fill out paperwork. But when I listen to it for the first time with out interference, I realized they mention a different address! So we are 10 minutes until our appointment and now we have book it to the other location. Luckily it was right down the street at the main Children's hospital. So we get there and park and go into. We are lost, again. We cant find the main desk and figure it says our appointment is on the 4th floor. So we get to the forth floor and realize its a patient wing! I feel horrible, as a very sleep depraved dad got back on the elevator with us. Finally we find our way to the right building and right floor and we were the first there. 

We saw the ped eye doctor and he said this:

Cade is far-sighted

He has a astigmatism

He has a clogged tear duct. 

So he says that he will wait until Cade is a year to do the probe if he needs it. But if there is any reason he will need surgery before then, to let him know and he will go ahead and do the probe while Cade is under. So I tell him we are going to the ped ENT today for his ear and it is a possibility. So he says to call him today after and let him know so they can correlate the surgery. 

So after that we are exhausted. We go to the hotel and try to take a nap, all of us. Only that didnt work. Cade decided he was having to much fun crawling around on the floor and didnt want to be confined to his crib. So after listening to him throwing a fit for a hour. John got him up and put him in bed with us. We slept for 40 min. After that we went to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings! We so miss that.

Then we go back to the hotel and get ready for bed and the next day (today). We do our normal routine for Cade and low and behold, he wont go to bed. We even let him crawl around until 9 and he still threw a fit for an hour and a half. Then he got up at 6. His schedule was so off. 

This morning we got up and packed and decided to go look for a hotel for Cade and me to stay at that had a shuttle and was close to the airport. We did and it is really nice. So we went to lunch and then to Children's South. Another location of Children's Hospital for his last two appointments. We get there, after them calling us and asking us to come in early, they make us wait a hour until our real appointment time. 

So his GI appointment:

He weighs 19lbs

He is doing great

Will be kept on his medication and formula mix until at least a year

Probably allergic to certain dyes (ie. why he gets sick when he eats orange and yellow foods)

He should start people foods (potatoes, bananas, things like that)

Start stage 3 foods

Start oatmeal

So pretty much he is doing great from her point of view and she said we just need to keep dealing with the puking.

So then upstairs to the ENT. Now remember Cade didnt go to bed until 10ish and got up at 6  and still has not had a nap at this point. Luckily they got us in early at the ENT and the waiting room was PACKED! There wasnt anywhere to even sit hardly.

So ENT:

Not the cyst we thought it was classified as

No idea what type of cyst it is

Rare cyst because of location

Needs to be removed 

So the doctor is so normal and like "So next week we can do the surgery". WHAT in the who where now?! Um because that is just a normal thing to say to a parent. So I tell him we are leaving tomorrow and cant, and then we cant when we get home because John's parents are coming in. So right now he is going to have it SEPT 8th. They are calling the eye doctor tomorrow to coordinate the two. So it might change. 

So after that we go back to the new hotel and take everything in. I asked John to make sure the new car seat fits in the car seat bag. I didnt want anything to happen to the $300 investment! He didnt, and it didnt fit! So now I have too much luggage and I dont know how to get it all.  I cant gate check the car seat because I cant lug the diaper bag, the backpack, my purse and the stroller and the car seat while we have a layover. I was suppose to pack the diaper bag and just have the backpack and purse on the plane, but now since I have to pack the car seat bag, I cant pack the diaper bag. Not to mention trying to get the suitcase, car seat and four bags, the stroller and the baby downstairs tomorrow at 530. 

So if I make it to VA with out losing it and stuff, it will be a miracle.