Category: Personal

Despite being at work all the time, and being constantly busy, I am still a human. I am social. I have a life, family, and friends. I have thoughts and experiences. Once in a while I share them, and when I do, I do so in this category. If you don’t know me personally, chances are you’ll find posts in this category particularly boring.

That’s a virus infection too

Maxim’s temperature didn’t go down, so we went to see Dr.Simos. He checked the kid thoroughly and said that Maxim’s throat is soar. He seems to have some sort of virus infection – nothing serious though.

Maxim was prescribed a couple of sirups that should easy up his throat and help fight the temperature. It is expected that by Wednesday he should be fully OK.

By the way – to those of you who trust only in “natural” ways of healing I have to say “Reconsider!”. I was once again amazed by the wonders of technology and progress today, when a sample was quickly taken from Maxim’s throat and analyzed with a bunch of chemicals, giving a rather precise result within 10 minutes – what was and what wasn’t there and what is the best way to fix it.

Amen to the technology!

P.S.: Oh, and the front upper teeth are coming too. We can almost see them.

Backposting record

Usually I blog every day. I write at least one post a day. But sometimes I am either too busy or too lazy to do so. When this happens I make either written or mental notes of a post that I want to write. Just to remember. And when I get out of my busy schedule or my lazyness, I write the actual text and backpost it (set the posting date to the day and time when I originally had the idea).

Normally, I get into my blogging mood pretty fast – one or two days, which is about five posts worth of blogging. I try to make the blogging vacations as short as possible, because it is very difficult to get back.

I was back from my blogging vacations yesterday, but I had so many posts postponed that I couldn’t bother. Today I said – “Enough!” and forced my sorry bottom to write everything down before my head would explode into tiny pieces.

Ladies and gentlemen – we have a backposting record! 15 posts were just backdated. Out of these 15 posts I had written notes of only 4. That means I had 11 posts in my head!

(the sound of standing ovations … Thank you! Thank you!)

I’ll try to never ever do it again, because it almosts hurts.

Still coming…

Maxim’s temperature is still high, although we can control it a bit. We try to not let it go above +39C. His gum is even more swollen. His moods are still swinging.

We called Dr.Simos and told him the story. He suggested to bring Maxim for a check tomorrow if the temperature will remain high.

We’ll see.

In the meantime, a bath with cooler wather than usual helped in chilling him down a bit.

The third one is coming

Maxim isn’t feeling very well today. His temperature is way above the norm at +39.5C. He doesn’t have any other symptoms – no flu, no running nose, no coughing, no sneazing, his stool is normal. Only the temperature.

After a closer investigation we also saw that his upper gum is bloated. That can mean only one thing – the third tooth is coming!

Maxim’s mood is swinging, he sleeps a lot and looks dull and tired most of the time. He eats properly though and drinks a lot – a good sign.

We’ll be watching him closer for the nex couple of days…

Neurologist say on the MRI scan

We took Maxim to the neurologist (Dr.Rumyana). She checked the results of the MRI scan and confirmed that everything looks OK and there are no pressure points on Maxim’s facial nerve or anywhere near. Good news.

Chances are, she said, that we won’t need any operations. All we have to do is massage his face about three times a day and ask Dr.Simos for some vitamins.

She also noticed that there were some improvements since our last visit to her about three month ago. She said that now Maxim’s eyes are the same – before you could see that one of his eyes was opened wider than the other. Not anymore though. And she also said that his face is getting better.

Olga can’t see the difference. I can, but only when I compare his current pictures to his older pictures. Hopefully, soon the only thing where it will be obvious will be the pictures.

Maxim’s reflexes were checked and we answered a whole lot of questions about his development and growth and Dr.Rumyana confirmed that he is doing very well in all other departments.

Next time we’ll see her some time in May to see if Maxim’s speech will be affected in any way. I hope not.