Quick health update (no pix, sorry)

We saw the ophthamologist today because the pediatrician had been concerned about how her pupils didn't seem to dilate even in the dark. We totally love and trust our pediatrician, and even though we'd never noticed any problem, if she said it was worth looking in to, we thought it was.

It was a loooong trip since the doc had been called out to emergency surgery just before we got there, but Lela was a trooper. Everyone commented on how beautiful her eyes were, how verbal she was, how smart she was, and how well she can see (outstandingly for a 19 month old apparently, at better than 20/25). (Proud mommy moment...) They had a neat eye exam thing on a flat screen TV with pictures of things (horse, hand, house, sun, flower, etc.). She named everything, some of them in Spanish. She kept saying casa for 'house', and I finally had to explain to the nurse that that's what she was saying since she wasn't sure if Lela was actually seeing it! One time when it was a horse for the second time Lela said, "More horsie. Horsie. I said it!" as in, "Duh, I already TOLD you!" :) She was great.

Then they dilated her pupils (or as my friend Alfredo says, dilactated her poopils), which she hated. The drops combined with the fact that it was verging on nap-time resulted in much eye rubbing and crying and she finally fell asleep in my lap while waiting for full dilation/dilactation. Boy was she mad at the light shining in her eyes when the doc came back! But the doc said everything looked fabulous, good vision, good muscle, good nerves. So no worries there.

Unfortunately, in the mean time she has developed another icky chest thing, wheezing and breathing heavy/hard. So since we're scheduled for surgery on Thursday I took her to the pediatrician later today just to make sure she was good to go ahead with that. You know, that whole breathing during anesthesia thing is probably really important. They gave her a super duper breathing treatment there (no steroids because that would suppress her immune system and we CERTAINLY don't want that prior to surgery). She's on breathing treatments at home every 4-6 hours but is otherwise fine. Or as fine as she can be sounding like a hippopotamus running a marathon.

That's all for now... Send us happy healthy thoughts, and please cross your fingers for a quick and successful adenoidectomy/tube insertion on Thursday!