My Molly

I haven't written anything in awhile so I thought it was time! I am having a love hate relationship with Molly Grace's newfound personality right now! Ha! She is such a strongwilled, determined little thing. When she wants something, she wants it right then and she wants it her way...she does not give an inch. I try not to be too hard on her because she is exactly like me!! If you cross her or don't give in to her way, watch out! It becomes melt down city! She can go from laughing to screaming and back to laughing again in 2 seconds flat! Sometimes I'm almost positive her head will start spinning! Ha!

But Oh how I love that little sassy britches! She is as sweet as she is rotten! We are working really hard on our manners. We try really hard to stop her fits and remind her that she doesn't get what she wants by crying and screaming at us. She dries it up pretty fast and gives us an overly sweet "pleeeease"! She's good. I have to hand it to her. She can turn it on and off as fast as she needs to!

MG is really into princesses right now. She went through a Peter Pan and Tinkerbell obsession for awhile, but now she's so into Little Mermaid. She is going to be Little Mermaid for Halloween and insists that she is having a Little Mermaid "Happy Day" party. She isn't giving in at all on that! I ordered Cinderella and it came today so we watched it for the first time tonight. She was pretty fascinated with it, too. When the step mom was being so mean to Cinderella, MG looked over with the most pitiful face and said "awww, poor Cinderella"! I love that she feels such empathy for her princesses! She's so tenderhearted.

We are still struggling with her being so painfully shy. She hates people. I don't use the word "hate" often. But she really hates people! It takes her forever to warm up to any family that we visit with. And as often as she sees the ladies at my work, she still won't even look at them. If someone says hi to her, she grunts and turns her head away! I feel so bad because she misses out on a lot of fun things because she's so shy. I see these other kids playing games at the fair and different places and participating in different things and she just refuses to have anything to do with anything or anyone. I pray that she grows out of it. I grew out of it when I hit about 25! Hopefully she learns a little quicker than I did!

ACH ENT Appt.

MG's appt. at ACH's ENT clinic finally came on Monday. After 40 days on antibiotics, 40 days on 3 different drops and a positive test for MRSA, I was ready! I had all her medical records; a nice, typed, organized list of her ear infections and medications for the past 2 years; and a list of questions. I have to say that I am NOT a fan of ACH's ENT clinic. I think the hospital is amazing, but I will never make the drive again just to see their doctors. I guess maybe I had set my hopes too high. I expected answers and solutions and we got none of that.

First of all, we didn't even see the doctor we had to wait 3 weeks to see! We saw a resident, not even a "real" doctor! The resident came in a checked her out and MG was not happy. He had no idea how to relate to children. I'm thinking a children's hospital is NOT the place for him! Then his attending physician came in. The thing I hate about that is that she asked the resident questions about MG, instead of asking her parents who are sitting right there! I felt like my poor child was a health class for these residents (as 3 more stood at the open door observing!).

The totally miraculous thing is that her MRSA ear was 100% dry and clear! She said that is very rare. Oral antibiotics alone rarely clear up MRSA. It usually has to be suctioned out every day for a couple weeks. GOD IS SO GOOD!! He heard our prayers and He healed her! So it was a good appt in that sense. We also had her hearing checked and she (sort of) passed with flying colors! She flat-out refused to participate in the hearing test. She acted like she knew nothing and wouldn't even say a word or play that "games" that the audiologist tried to play with her. She did do the hearing screener though where she sticks something in her ears and measures something or other and she passed that! She said it's almost impossible for her to have any hearing loss after passing the screening. PTL!

The tube in her left ear (the one that the infection originally started in on August 9th)still has some fluid behind the ear drum and her tube is out - just floating around in there! But they don't want to replace the tube until she it gets infected again...which it will! And her tonsils are huge and have an odor, which means they need to come out. But they don't want to do that until they do the tube surgery. Grrr! All of this needs to be done, but they want to wait.

So...that's what we're doing! We're waiting! I feel 120% blessed that the MRSA cleared up on its own. I never want to make it seem like I'm not thankful for that. God is good and he answered our cries for healing. I guess I was really just wanting some longterm solutions to my poor baby's ear troubles. I know as her mom, I probably overreact and it's a lot more important to me than to others. So we will wait and trust in the Lord! Afterall, He loves her even more than I do!