It's been a week

It started Monday at Ammon's physical. I was concerned that his reflux was coming back because he was starting to have stomach aches again, and had even had a throw up sick morning. After telling her everything, she said she did't think it's his reflux coming back, she thinks it's headaches. The days he is really sick, naps, then wakes up fine by lunch-those are days he's having a migraine, which really affects his stomach. She called it stomach migraines. Everything makes since. Right now we are keeping a stomach ache/headache diary and keeping a close eye on him. If it gets bad or affects school, we'll push for some testing and find out what we can do to avoid the headaches.

Then Wedsnesday we took Corrine to a dermatologist. Last Friday Johann noticed an area about the size of a quarter on her head that was bald. It was a shock since we'd never seen it before. At the dermatologist she looked at the spot, measured it, checked her nails for pitting (another symptom). She told us we could treat with steriod shots that are injected right into the bald spot monthly. Corrine's eyes were getting bigger, until the doctor patted her knee and said "Don't worry sweetie-no shots for you today". She relaxed after that. We are trying a steriod spray that we use 2x a day for 2 months. It may help regrow the hair, but it could still take up to a year for all the hair to grow back. The doctor wrote down the diagnosis: Alopecia Areata. This was exactly what I thought it was. Corrine has a mild case with only one spot. She may have random bald spots for the rest of her life, as this can be an auto-immune disease, which means her immune system sees her hair follicles as foreign and attacks them.



Then Thursday I noticed a hard spot sticking out behind Rebecca's neck about the size of a pea. I took her to the doctor Friday to find out what was going on. We found out it's an lymph node that reacted from a mousiquto bite she had 5 days earlier behind that same ear. Since the lymph node is not infected, we are to just "watch" it. There is a chance that it could get infected and need to be drained. It could take weeks to months for it to fully good back down.



After those 3 apts I was done with doctors for a while, except Simeon has his monthly check next Weds, and NOTHING strange better come up.