Adventures with CD!

Sunday Clay told us he had a headache at 3pm and it did not really stop him from playing much but he still hurt.The later it got the more it hurt. Monday morning he woke up saying it still hurt and actually took a nap on his own in the morning(VERY not normal) KC got him in at the clinic in the late morning and were very surprised with what came of it. We saw resident Doc then her reported to his attending who just happened to be a pediatric neurologist(Dr.Burns) She was pretty sure it was just a virus but wanted KC to talk to her daily about how Clay was doing and if we thought of any other history.(they work in the same area of the clinic)I came home and talked to my mom and she reminded me that Clay had said over the summer on a few different occasions said "My head is not working right!" We did not think much of it just thought he was being silly. My mother-in-law remembered that also and that Clay was also sensitive to loud sounds. KC told Dr. Burns that and she scheduled an appointment with an ophthalmologist(on
Friday) and Clay passed all their tests with 20/15 vision! We were really excited about that but then when they looked in his eyes they found he could not see! His actual Rx is +4.25.(his actual glasses will only be half of that because of how kids eyes grow and change) Dr Burns had come with us to see this other doc and she said well that is the problem! As this eye doc looked more he found his optic nerve was swollen. So the next step is an MRI and depending on what that shows he would need a spinal tap. In Clay a MRI AND a SPINAL would require sedation. In a perfect world he would only need a Spinal depending on what the MRI said. In our world we have a 4 year old that could no hold still for either and we don't want to sedate him 2x. That means we are going to kill tests with one sedation. Today we ordered his glasses and some contacts for myself. He could have the MRI as soon as Monday I will keep facebook posted.