jojosmami
Mommy to 3!
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Trey, my son was born @ 4 wks early (actually my daughter was born 6 wks early as well) but he was born without Tear Ducts. Well, he was born with the tubes but they were fused shut and never developed an opening. They described it as the tear duct is supposed to look like a piece of macaroni but he was born with a piece of spagetti.He had a lot of problems with his sinus and ear infections because there was no drainage in his face. He would wake up with his eyes glued shut with puss and stuff that would normally drain back into your body or out your tear ducts.His eyes would get so infected that when I would put a warm rag to clean his eyes blood and puss would SQUIRT out.so he had surgery to try and naturally poke holes in the tubes twice which didn't work, he had tubes put into his eyes twice which worked the second time, he had tubes put in his ears, and his adenoids taken out. They wanted to open his face and reconstruct his sinus cavity but he wasn't even 3 yet and had already been thru so much. My DH and I decided to wait for a while because the tubes in his eyes were working to see if as he got bigger and his face structure spread out a little if it would fix itself naturally. ANd for the most part it did. The tubes grew skin around them and they then removed the tubes and because he grew he has a bit more drainage. If he gets sick his boogies still come out of his eyes instead of all of them coming from his nose and gets some infections but nothing like it was thank God! I was only 21 when all of this started and it was really hard. Especially because that's not they only health problems he had. He was allergic to virtually ALL food ( no lie), he had febrile seizures, an immune diffeciecy disorder,asthma, and has a passing out disorder. Now He's 5 and has no allergies except peanuts,no seizures,asthma only has flare ups if he's really sick,and we have a handle on the passing out. We practically lived at the ER and the children's hospital in the city! My DH tried to help out as much as possible but he had to work to pay for all the med bills and I don't have a lot of family so I took him to all his MRI's, CAT Scans, Specialist Dr. Appt. all of that by myself. My DH was at all the surgeries and stuff but you do what you have to do for your babies. When people heard we were trying for a 2nd baby they thought I was crazy because all I went thru with my son but all of that doesn't matter when they smile and laugh. You're a mom, you know. I went thru a lot of issues with my 2nd pregnancy too so hopefully I'll be blessed with a nice normal pregnancy this time around! I am gonna test in the am. I can't wait! I'm so happy to hear that your AF isn't here! It's so exciting! I've been seeing a ton of too on the other threads I have too. Feels like a good month. And I know how you feel about having a place to share our crazy obsessions! I thought I was the only one who would go to the dollar store and by $20 worth of HPT and do them everyday! It makes you feel a little more normal. LOL!