When my son was born, he had a noticeable droop on the right side of his mouth. Our health providers weren't exactly sure why this was so we went to Children's Hospital to meet with a neurologist to see if she could tell us what was going on. Turned out that he was missing a muscle on the left side of his face, called Aplasia of the Orbicularis Oris, which caused the right side to pull (you noticed it the most when his mouth was open or when he was crying). Pierce Brosnan apparently has the same thing and numerous women around the world think he's pretty dashing, so that was fine by me :) Just as long as it wouldn't affect his speech or his eating or anything like that. But he also had a couple of other things going on that were a little 'off' - like this funny c-shaped curve he would do while lying on his back; a funky left arm that wasn't doing all the same things as the right, yet in some ways can do the fine motor skills better than the right; and overall it seemed like there was a general left sided weakness going on; and then recently we found out that he needs glasses and surprise surprise, the issue is mainly in his left eye. At one point I was curious if maybe he'd suffered a stroke when he was little and that was why things were so wonky. So now we have the opportunity to go back and see the specialist at Children's again and I've been debating over whether we should go or not.
The reason for this is the fact that overall, my little guy is healthy and happy and isn't really 'sick'. Now I know it's not just a place for the sick sick kids because Children's houses some amazing specialists, which is why we would be going. But I can't help but think that our reasons for going seem silly and minimal compared to some of the other kids/babies that are there. Many of those other babies have real problems and part of me feels silly going. Yet the other part of me knows that I have just as much reason to be there as the rest because I too want some answers, to know if by some chance all of this is related. We saw the optometrist yesterday and mentioned that we had an appointment and would it be worthwhile to go and she thought yes, but I don't know. I just don't know if anything will really come from it. We've already got the plan for the eyes in motion and his mouth is getting better and as he grows and develops the left side is getting stronger, so do we really need to go???
The reason for this is the fact that overall, my little guy is healthy and happy and isn't really 'sick'. Now I know it's not just a place for the sick sick kids because Children's houses some amazing specialists, which is why we would be going. But I can't help but think that our reasons for going seem silly and minimal compared to some of the other kids/babies that are there. Many of those other babies have real problems and part of me feels silly going. Yet the other part of me knows that I have just as much reason to be there as the rest because I too want some answers, to know if by some chance all of this is related. We saw the optometrist yesterday and mentioned that we had an appointment and would it be worthwhile to go and she thought yes, but I don't know. I just don't know if anything will really come from it. We've already got the plan for the eyes in motion and his mouth is getting better and as he grows and develops the left side is getting stronger, so do we really need to go???
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