ENT
For those of you who look at my little Twitter feed on the side of the blog I just wanted to follow up on my mention of a pediatric ENT - I don’t want anyone to worry!
Pearl has unilateral choanal atresia - which basically just means that she was born with one nostril that is basically closed. This isn’t a big deal, her other nostril is fine and allows her to breath without any trouble. However, for a few different reasons, we’re thinking of having them do a procedure to open up the closed nostril. This requires a CT scan so the doctor can see exactly what he’s up against. We went in for the CT scan this morning but the order from the doctor wasn’t specific enough for the technician - it didn’t say exactly what she was supposed to do the CT scan of. It was fairly dumb because the order did say “choanal atresia” and that is a condition of the nose - hence the CT scan should be of the nose.
It probably wasn’t the tech’s fault but she couldn’t do anything until someone (she claimed it had to be the doctor who ordered the CT) told her what exactly to do CT of. This was 8:15am so our doctor wasn’t readily available. Being in a hospital full of doctors apparently didn’t help either. However, when the radiologist finally got there he apparently said something to the effect of, “duh, we should do a CT scan of her nose.”
So, it all worked out fine. Pearl was such a great kid that they didn’t have to conk her out - she stayed still for the quick scan. It will be a couple of weeks before we know the results of the scan and make a decision about her nose.
