Do you ever feel like your life is never going to get back on track? That is how I am feeling now. Parker has been so good considering he has been off meds ages, and have very few physical reflux symptoms, passed a pH probe and we are 'waiting and seeing' for a month. Yep these should be happy days (LOL and this feels like it should be in the vent section.)

Well this is now about Cooper, we had the psychiatrist today, we went over the last month with Cooper, starting school and how he is feeling, talking about his anxietys, and then he asks if there is anything substantial that has happen, I say well did I ever tell you about the time Cooper fainted and then had a seizure:violent1: nope, forgot to inform him of that one.

It seems we are heading down a different track now, he thinks that everything with Cooper may be related, the seizures, the mood swings, the stutterings (and he added in that he has anxiety and trouble sleeping), all linked to a neurological disorder SO NOT what I wanted to hear today.

He said that Cooper definately feels resentment to Parker and has a love hate relationship with him, Cooper wants to love him, but then resentment and jelously takes over and thats when he gets aggressive (read that as thumps or nice PATS him on the back (always the back))

So we have the EEG on Friday and then we have to come back and access the situation. I am more confused and more worried but you get that, what are you going to do?

I am going to add the links to Coopers previous threads below, for anyone who wants to follow along, I know a few are having troubles with their non-gerdlings and jelousy/behaviour problems. I will be updating in therapy from now on.

http://www.infantrefluxdisease.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23225
http://www.infantrefluxdisease.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23561
http://www.infantrefluxdisease.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23874
http://www.infantrefluxdisease.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25722

oh rach im sory to here cooper is not doing so well, i really hope that the eeg comes back all clear and that you guys manage towork through some of his issues with parker:hug:

Oh Rachel, how scary! Try not to worry too much until the testing is done. Hopefully things will get better on the jealousy front now that Parker is doing better and Copper is the one going off to see all the drs.

You are such a great mom to be so on top of all of this. I am sure many parents would have just let it all go and possibly missed something.

:sad5:

I'm so sorry Rach.... :hug:
yet, I don't understand how the love/hate relationship is linked to the stuttering and the seizures. Is it nerves? Anxiety?

Poor thing? UGH... nothing is ever easy is it?

(((((((HUG)))))))

Rachel, I hope the EEG appointment reveals NOTHING. I'll be thinking of you. :hug:

:( I know that has to be scary. Are they going to do a cat scan?

My coworker recently took his son to the dr. because he has problems with one of his hands (can only close it so far). After doing a cat scan, they found a fluid filled spot on his brain that was affecting him. They say it's from a blood clot at birth or something? They are also thinking it may have something to do with his behavioral and study problems. The only way to "fix it" though is to drain the area.

Rachel,
This just threw me right off. I think I am as confused as you. Hopeful the EEG will come back fine, and it will be just a matter of continuing his therapy. Poor little pooper :(
I think it's good that he is checking things out. This guy sounds great BTW.

I have this picture in my head of Cooper jumping up and down with his hand in the air yelling "It's my turn! It's my turn!"

GEEZE! (talking to the big guy upstairs)
Let Rachel take a breath for a minute would ya! She can handle anything you throw at her, but a couple weeks off of SUPER Mom duty would be good.

Rachel:hug:

hope the EEG will come back normal...

I think you need to not worry and take it one step at a time... if there was something wrong at birth, you would have seen it by now and he would have had problems all along.
Let's not get all bent out of shape and think that it is something major and that brain surgery or something drastic is needed, it could be nothing.

Wait, I don't mean that you don't need to worry, well, you know what I mean, just don't get all upset and start worrying needlessly about things that might not be there. OK? :hug:

Sorry if I made it worse by saying what I did. As far as my coworker's son, it's nothing major and he's now 11. So obviously it wasn't something that was bothering them too much. They aren't even sure if they are going to do anything about it. I'm sure Cooper will be fine. :hug:

Em, Cooper and Parkers relationship isn't related to the stuttering etc, that is separate, it tied everything up together, but he still thinks he has issues with Parker, even though he doesn't always show it, and I am hoping that is all it did.

Minnie you made me laugh, Coopers my turn, my turn. He truly has been my no problems child, some speech therapy and thats all really. So yes now the fun begins and a holiday from it all would have been fab, some time to go to the dentist or something equally as exciting.

Amanda I think the plan is to do the EEG first, I asked him if that comes back clean is that the end of it, he said he would probably do an MRI anyway, how do you get a kid to sit still for that? I think Em, is referring to the fact that I am worried that he was in distress when he was born and whether that has anything to do with it, he had a knot in the cord. Weird things go through your brain KWIM, he doesn't have a clot or anything like that, things only come on when he is tierd, or fainted, so I suppose we have to wait and see.

Katey, thank you for saying I am on to it, sometimes I feel like I look into things too much, but then it is all leading to something, I said to Dan most people don't have these problems, and he made me feel a bit better and said a lot of kids don't get diagnosed early either, so that is something. If there is something sooner the better.

Dan is so right Rachel...how many kids are never even diagnosed for so many things because the parents are just not in tune with their children....One day the boys will be all grown up and this will be a all be it vivid, a distant "memory". I will be waiting for the test results and keeping all of you in my thoughts!!!:hug:

Rachel

Just wanted to give you a ((HUG))
Please keep us posted....
Lots of it sounds like 'normal' kid stuff to me, and these kids are dealing with family related issues because of reflux
i hope all the tests come back normal and put your mind at ease
i think it's great that Cooper is talking to someone and trying to get to the bottom of all of this at such an early age
He's a lucky kid

Hope the EEG comes back fine, and i gues think about it like we did hannahs MRI i was terrified, but if it shows something then you'll have an answer, mabye not one you want, but its better than wondering everyday why? i'll be thinkin about you guys.. hope its fine:hug: