Doctor Visit

Well today Dylan had a doctors appointment and that was for a FESS with speech. Basically a swallow study to see how he is handling solids and liquids. But in order to do this they have to stick a camera down his nose and to his trachea. That way they can see if there is food entering the airway or not. Well it is determined that he cannot handle liquids since he refused to drink anything from a bottle, cup, spoon, etc. They placed liquid in his mouth but it took quite a bit for him to even attempt to swallow and when he did it just pooled up and was just splattered all over his airway. So they determined that liquids are too dangerous for his lungs. But the great news is that he can have stage 2 foods since the stage 1 bananas went so well. He is making progress at lest with his food not quite with drink but with food. We will reevaluate in April to see if he is to continue tube feeds for his formula or if he can drink. Let us just pray that he will be drinking by then.