The Daily Hailey

In preparing to share information on our doctors appointment yesterday, I feel a little nervous. I can’t help but think there will be people who will disagree with some of the solutions we settled on. While its ok to make different choices and not to agree with everything everyone chooses, putting it on the internet is a vulnerable thing, and I’m a bit apprehensive. So please, if you choose to read forward, respect me, Brady, our doctor, and the choices we’re making going forward. Trust me, I’m well researched. I feel confident in our choices, even if you’re not.

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I’m starting with myself, because I feel like the boys updates might be a bit more “debatable.” My info is pretty cut and dry.

First off, my ear! When I was pregnant with Waverly, I got super congested, and eventually, my ears plugged. My doctor was able to see that I had a lot of wax in one ear, and advised me to drop oil or peroxide or whatever I so desired into my ears to loosen the wax up so I could hear again. I did so, and it was a definite relief. Though I didn’t feel it had completely cleared up my issue. They checked my ears a handful of times. Sometimes there was fluid in there, sometimes not. Nothing really consistent, so we rolled with it as a pregnancy thing. Now, as a currently not pregnant person, my ears are still giving me a hard time. In the last month or so, I had to go through another span of time where my left ear was completely plugged with wax. I managed to get it pretty clear, but then it started itching and bugging me and I’m doing everything I can to resist Q-tips. Yesterday, Dr. Guselle checked my ear and confirmed that there was still quite a bit of wax in there, and offered to water blast it out. Have you guys ever had that done? It was amaaazing! The big syringe came out, looking all scary, but the moment it started, I remember asking if we could just have a standing weekly appointment to do just this. It felt SO good! She blasted a couple of rounds of water into my ear before a big disgusting hunk of wax made its appearance. It was a noticeable change. It did, however, leave a bit of an angry, raw spot in my ear. I have a standing prescription waiting at the pharmacy if it starts to irritate me, but it hasn’t yet. Win! But seriously, guys, get your ears blasted out. Its unreal.

Secondly, I discussed my yucky face mole with her. I mentioned it a while ago in my “Things You May or May Not Know” post. She was in full support of me having the mole removed, but as I suspected, she has to send a referral to a plastic surgeon for it. She will do some small mole removals in office, but not this one. She said it’ll be a pretty sizeable wait time, but I’m comfortable with that. At least the ball is rolling!

That was basically all we covered about me. She inquired about Brady, as he had originally been on the list of people to talk about, but he confirmed that he had since been to a walk in and his sickness was all squared away. I had never seen her so laid back, honestly. She’s so comfortable with us, which I will always appreciate, but yesterday was just different. She leaned back in her chair and twirled her hair as we talked. She talked about some things she had gone through with her kids when they were younger, and how she saw them through. Not just “doctor” advise, but some “mom” advise thrown in there, which is sometimes almost better. It was a LONG appointment, and I am SO thankful to have a doctor who will take that time with us.

Sooooo can we all agree to keep our differences of opinion to ourselves tomorrow when I share about Solly and/or Rowan? Yes??