First loose tooth & medical updates

We noticed this past Sunday that Emily has her first loose tooth. She's been wiggling it often to loosen it up some more because she's ready for it to come out. I tried to pull it for her tonight, but it isn't quite loose enough for it to easily come out so we decided to try again in a day or two.

Alexa had her eye surgery and things seem to be going pretty well. The sutures on the left eye look a little worse and seem to be healing a little more slowly than the right eye, but it was like that during the last surgery too and the doctor said that the left eye was worse so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Her eyes started getting really goopy and yucky on Saturday and it was so bad that I had to wipe gunk out of her eyes every 45 minutes so I called her surgeon and he called her in an oral antibiotic. Even just an hour or so after the first dose there was a noticeable improvement. Looking back, it should have occurred to me that she was probably getting sick and that it was just showing up in her tear ducts first.

The reason I should have thought of that was because Madison was diagnosed with strep throat on Thursday. I thought we had escaped without the other girls getting sick until Emily was sent home from school on Monday. I took her to the doctor and sure enough she tested positive for strep throat too. I was thinking that it was odd since it had been 4 days since Madison was diagnosed, but I now realize it's possible that Alexa was starting to show symptoms on Saturday and because we started antibiotics so quickly her throat didn't end up hurting as badly as her sisters did. In my opinion, the major perk of summer vacation is that my kids will hopefully get a break from being sick. Each of the girls have had strep throat 3 separate times this past year, plus they've each had ear infections and sinus infections. I just realized that the girls have been on an antibiotic nearly every single month since school started - that's pitiful!

Still no news yet about Emily's kidney stone. They had us do a 24 hour urine collection and that was sent off on April 1st. The results usually take about 4 weeks. I got a letter in the mail this week saying the results are back, but when I called to find out about them I was told that we won't find out the results until our appointment with the nephrologist on May 26th. I have a feeling that she may have already passed the stone though. When we were doing the urine collection, there were times when I noticed small sand/rock-like sediment in her urine, so between that and the fact that she hasn't had any pain or problems since I am hoping that it broke up and she was passing it then. If I understand correctly, the appointment with the nephrologist will mostly be to try and determine what is causing her to have stones and how to keep from getting more of them.

Hopefully things will go well.