I am happy to report that potty training continues to go well in the Saucer house. Alan is especially good at staying dry through the night. He even came to wake me up at 3am yesterday to tell me he needed to go potty!!! We are still working on taking the time to go poop, but today we were very successful after I introduced Alan to reading while he waited for the poopy to come. He really is ALL boy!!! We reinstated the "potty treats" for poopy only and hopefully we will continue to make progress.
Last week Alan said he put a popcorn seed in his ear at school. We took him to the pediatrician at the base and they tried to get it out with irrigation. While we were waiting for the referral my friend, Missy (a nurse), took him to her husband's office and tried to irrigate it out again. No luck so we had to wait for a referral to be approved to take him to a pediatric ENT. The closest one is in Pensacola and couldn't get him in until March 17th!! Again I called my friend Missy and asked for her recommendation on ENT doctors in town. She gave me her guy's name and I got on the phone with Tricare. It took lots of call transfers and time, but they could change the referral to Dr. Tran and he could get us in yesterday. Dr. Tran was unable to remove the popcorn seed in his office, but they could get Alan in for surgery first thing this morning to remove the seed. Here is where I learned that anything requiring anesthesia is called surgery. They were going to put Alan out so he...
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