Trip to Utah

It's been 6 months since Emmett was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and started wearing oxygen while he sleeps. We still don't know what is causing the obstruction. So back to Utah we go for a follow up sleep study. We needed to be in Utah by noon on Friday to meet with the pulmonologist first.

Thursday after work we drove to my parents house to sleep, it broke up the drive to Utah a little better. We didn't have to leave quite as early.

On Friday, we met with Dr. Daftary. He went through what he thought should happen on this visit, versus what the "Boise" doctors thought should happen, and then he asked Scott and I "as the parents" what we thought should happen. I wanted Emmett to have the same type of sleep study that he did 6 months ago, so that we could compare the results. I felt like if we varied from the test at all, we wouldn't have accurate results telling us in fact that he still does have apnea, it is worse, it is better, or better yet it is gone! Dr. Daftary agreed and Emmett had the study done exactly the same way.

Emmett and I reported back to Primary Children's Hospital at 8pm Friday night. Scott stayed with the rest of the kids at the hotel. I kept Emmett from taking naps through out the day so he would be tired and go right to sleep for the test. As the nurses were "hooking" him up, he just sat there. Which surprised me, I thought he would be grabbing everything they stuck to him, but because he was so tired, he didn't. Emmett slept pretty well and was ready to get up at 6am. The nurses came in, took the wires off, cleaned him up, and sent us on our way. We won't know the results for 2 weeks.

Here is Emmett ready for the sleep study.










Saturday: After getting back at the hotel around 7 this morning, I crawled into bed and Emmett went to sleep in the pack-n-play. The rest of the family slept in until around 8:30am. Then we were up and off to meet with our accountant and visit friends.

Today we had lunch with one of my mission companions and her husband. They were visiting from Texas. Karen's husband had a mission reunion last night. Karen and I were companions 17 years ago in Montgomery Alabama. We had the best time together. Our birthdays are both in March, so we were able to celebrate them together. Here is a picture of us together on our mission and 17 years later, married and each with 4 children. Love you Karen!





It was a quick trip to Utah and back. Now we wait for the results of Emmett's test.