ENT and Infrared Radiolgy

For Josh’s dysphagia, we met with the ENT specialist on March 9, to check the ear, neck throat areas for abnormalities.  Through the nose, they put a camera into Josh’s nose and pushed it up the nose and down his throat.  Sounds like an easy thing to do but this was done without any medicine or pain killers.  Poor baby was in so much pain and was crying through the entire process.

Josh couldn’t sit still so the first attempt failed.  Eeeks.  They called in a nurse to hold him down and tried again.  The second time worked fine but not until Josh was screaming.  😱 I was horrified.  At that point, I’d rather feed him blended food forever and not have him go through that again.

On March 11, Josh did an infrared radiology scan of his abdominal area.  Below is the fancy looking screenshots that were taken.  No clue what they mean but we were told everything looks normal.

Little Josh has Dysphagia

Little Josh has been having stomach issues since after having his appendix removed.  He is eating but the quantity of food has decreased by 50%.  He also complains that there is stomach pain, near the belly button area and feels full very quickly after eating only small amounts of food.  

Sadly, starting March 1, Josh stopped eating solids completely.  He can’t swallow any solids, just blended food.  So we’ve been blending purée food for him ever since.  Our family physician has referred us to the BC Children’s hospital for further examination.  We are waiting for the specialist appointments.