Chloe Day 7

Chloe's sutures were looking better by Monday morning so we chose not to bring her in. However, while we were upstairs eating dinner, she was back licking on them again and removed some more sutures. Stephanie took her into the vet in St. Michael this morning to make sure they looked ok. The vet said that there was no gapping and that that the incision is swollen and slightly red. He expects it to be swollen, but does not want to see the redness around the incision. The important part is to prevent her from getting an infection. She is already on antibiotics from the surgery, but will now have to wear an E-collar (lampshade) at all times when we are not present. The remaining stitches will be removed Friday or Monday.

Alaina's appointment at Children's Hospital Feeding Clinic went well. The reason we were there is that she has now fallen in the 3% category for her height and weight. We are already mostly doing everything correctly, but have to try to help her eat more high calorie foods and push the Pediasure more with monitoring her snacks between meals. They want her to be very hungry when it is mealtime. What they observed was that she seems to have a difficult time chewing her food therefore spitting a lot of items back out. I guess it is just too much work for her so we have to work on strengthening her jaw. She will then have a weight check in a couple of weeks and another at her 2 year check up. Her doctor also mentioned that we may have to see an endocrinologist if we are not seeing results.