Today LM and I went in for the six-week follow up to his original appointment. He was scared. He cried before we left the house, he fell asleep in the van on the way to the hospital. He hid behind me when we saw the doctor, and when he saw the nurse who administered his first enema.
They told him that this was a talking appointment and that there would be no touching or looking at of his bum. He still chose to sit in the chair furthest away from the doctor, across the room from the nurse. LOL
We were able to convince him to lay down on the table and the doctor felt his tummy. She said it felt great!
The doctor asked about LM's bowel movements - she was impressed with his once every 1-2 day regularity, and the nurse liked the sound of the quality of those bowel movements. They told me that they were really happy with this progress; they said that I am doing fantastically, and told LM that he is doing a great job.
They told me that his recovery is happening so quickly - that normally it takes 6-12 months for this kind of improvement!! Wow!
There were no x-rays taken, which I'm kind of bummed about; I'd like to see the difference, but I guess if they were necessary, the dr. would have ordered them. She is going to write a letter to my dr. asking if she will take on LM as a patient and follow up with him on this issue. I have recently decided to stop taking LM and his siblings to the dr. they've been seeing since LM was born because that dr. moved to a building downtown and cut his hours back to only one day per week. He is older and reaching retirement age...maybe past that age, but I can't make my life fit into that timeslot. So I'm trying to get my kids in with my doctor. I can't do that, though, until they have an issue that requires me to take them in as a walk-in. The problem with this is that my kids are generally healthy and I am not a "rush to the dr." sort of person. So...they might not have another checkup for a long long time. The perfectionist in me is very stressed by this. One of my children has missed his yearly check up and that is so hard for me to deal with. Gah.
Anyway, the doctor said to the nurse that it would be such a great idea to have a website all about constipation, with ideas to get more fibre into a child's diet, etc. and I said, "I did that! I started a blog about this whole process and our path."
I'm not sure they heard me. LOL
The appointment was good, we won't see them again, I don't think. It's too bad because they are wonderful and caring. It's good though, because now we know how to fix this, in all of our children. :)
