"Talking"

Dallas has kept us busy since his last seizure.  He recovered fine from that, and then the following week as we were leaving Physical Therapy at Children's, I let go of his walking wings for a minute, and he managed to trip himself up and fall face first on the hard surface of the elevator.  It only took a few seconds for the blood to start gushing from his mouth and nose and the sight of it put me into a state of panic.  The elevator doors shut and we were moving as his blood and my spilled coffee were rolling across the floor...I felt like I was in a movie.  I hit a bunch of buttons on the elevator, not really thinking clearly about what I should do.  We ended up back in the PT area and got some towels to clean him up and ice for his mouth and nose.  I put my finger in his mouth to see if his teeth were in tact and they seemed to be.  We went to the ER, but he had calmed down some and after getting him cleaned up I felt as though he'd live to see another day and maybe we didn't need to go through the whole ER scene! After getting home, I checked his mouth again and his front tooth was jammed slightly out of place and I could wiggle it, so I took him into the dentist.  He checked out OK, the dentist said his tooth should tighten back up and that it may have lost some blood flow, so we can expect the tooth to discolor over the next 8 weeks.  I have already started to notice the discoloration, but at least he has the tooth!! Although the event felt dramatic, he was just fine in the end.

The following week he had another one of his intestinal bouts where he vomits for 5-10 hours and then goes back to himself.  This type of thing has happened roughly 20 times since he has been born.  He wakes up in the morning and starts throwing up and by early afternoon, he's back to eating and drinking like normal.  I have mentioned it to his pediatrician and she hasn't seemed concerned by it, rather just chalks it up to intestinal rotation....I am feeling less comfortable with it and plan to pursue a visit with an actual GI doctor.

On a more EXCITING note...Dallas's first "words" are coming out in the form of counting.  The video clip shows him during a speech session counting.  He starts at number 4.

http://youtu.be/-Ijx_urbiAY