We're out of the woods and oh-so-happy about it! On June 8th, Maddie had surgery to remove her tonsils. AND her adenoids, which had grown back since her surgery in November. The doctor also went in and enlarged her sinuses which, for whatever reason, weren't growing/forming properly. The reason Maddie could never get rid of a cold or a runny nose was that her sinuses were very small and didn't allow for any draining, so everything always just kind of stayed where it was. The first 10 days after surgery were very rough. Maddie was very lethargic and she basically refused to eat or drink anything. A week after she got out of the hospital, we were back in again because she was dehydrated. She spent the night there (and was misdiagnosed with pneumonia in the meantime -- VERY frustrating!!!) A few days after we got home, though, she was just fine, and she's getting better every day. She's even starting to talk a little bit! Included in her little vocabulary: Mommy, Daddy, Nani (my mom), Nini (my grandma), NOOOO (her favorite), Elmo, Dora, more, milk, ball, book, hi, and bye. We're working on getting her to put words together now, but she's resisting, as she tends to do when she just doesn't want to do something. Early Intervention is coming out for her first official appointment on Tuesday and I'm very confident that her speech will just take off pretty soon and we'll all be wishing we could go back to the days where she only had one or two words!
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