No More Peas In The Nose Please

Okay, last night was interesting....Zane has a hole in his alveolar that goes straight up through the floor of his nose. This will be there until his bone graft surgery, around five to six years of age. For now, we're going to see food and liquid escape from his nose, but we expect this to improve as his palate becomes full functioning and more teeth come in allowing him to chew his food better.

Because he has food traveling up to the nose, we saline and suction prior to putting in his nose stent before bed each night. He has learned to accept the nose stent and is quite cooperative, but irrigation is no fun and it takes me and Eric together to get the job done. Well, I've done it on my own a handful of times, but it's much easier with Eric's help.

So last night, I go to suction and no air moves. Eric and I said in unison, 'Whoa!' After more saline, suctioning and filling up a couple tissues of rice, carrots and chicken, out pops one whole green pea! Yakkkkkk - poor baby! But he can breathe now!

I still got a bit more rice and carrots out this morning - oh my! Here's hoping things improve...I guess it's good to know that the hole is large enough for a pea to travel through.

As for other cool tricks that Zane can do, today he cruised the length of the couch while holding on! That's a first and he knew he was big stuff!