{"id":1006,"date":"2009-08-07T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2009-08-07T00:38:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T07:38:35","slug":"what-will-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"What Will Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ty Antics:<\/p>\n

Told him in the car that when we got home everyone was going to get in the spa.?? He wanted to play Xbox.?? Sorry Charlie.?? He thinks then says “Mommy.?? What will happen if I splash while I am in the spa?”?? I say “I know exactly what you are up to Ty.?? If you splash you WILL have to get out of the spa but you will not be allowed back in the house.?? You’ll have to sit by yourself on the porch”.<\/p>\n

How do you like that??? Wondering if naughtiness might serve his purpose.?? It’s my job to make sure it does NOT.?? And now I sound EXACTLY like my mother.?? \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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So what do you know about tics??? Always something over here huh?<\/p>\n

About 3.5 weeks ago, Jim and I started noticing Ty clearing his throat a lot.?? We figured he was coming down with something but it never escalated into any other symptoms.???? The throat clearing is happening more and more frequently and we are now questioning whether or not it is a tic.???? It seems to me that he is doing it most when he is excited, engaged,?? or tired (just like the head shaking thing that he still does).?? In the last hour that I have been on the computer I have nearly lost my ever lovin mind because he has cleared his throat about every 15 seconds.?? If you ask him about it he typically doesn’t realize he is doing it.?? I heard him tell someone this afternoon though that he had something in his throat but I later wondered if that is the excuse he is now giving since I fed that to him by asking “Ty is there something in your throat?”.???? Tonight though, I called him in here and asked him about it again and he almost started crying.?? I could tell he is getting annoyed with it to.?? Is there something wrong with his throat and this is legit??? Is this some form of tic??? Is it a tick but now he IS hurting his throat by all the clearing??? I wouldn’t have even considered the tic possibility except for the fact that a girlfriend of mine who has a child recently diagnosed with tourettes does the same thing (throat clearing\/grunting).?????? What other things are tics associated to??? I have heard stress and anxiety but I don’t see any reason for that in Ty’s environment so that doesn’t seem likely.?? I don’t know what to think.<\/p>\n

I looked up Tourettes tonight on the National Institute of Neurological Disorders website and got a little freaked out because throat clearing is mentioned frequently as a prominent vocal tic.?? Here are a few other things that sound familiar:<\/p>\n

*?? Simple vocalizations might include repetitive throat-clearing, sniffing, or grunting sounds.<\/p>\n

*?? Tics are often worse with excitement or anxiety and better during calm, focused activities.<\/p>\n

*?? Tics do not go away during sleep but are often significantly diminished.<\/p>\n

*?? (Cause)?? Although the cause of TS is unknown, current research points to abnormalities in certain brain regions (including the basal ganglia, frontal lobes, and cortex), the circuits that interconnect these regions, and the neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine) responsible for communication among nerve cells. Given the often complex presentation of TS, the cause of the disorder is likely to be equally complex.?? (With Ty’s bilateral brain hemorrages…who know’s?)<\/p>\n

*?? Many with TS experience additional neurobehavioral problems including inattention; hyperactivity and impulsivity (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder???ADHD) and related problems with reading, writing, and arithmetic; and obsessive-compulsive symptoms such as intrusive thoughts\/worries and repetitive behaviors.?? (Ty = ADHD, OCD – and definitely repetitive behavori)<\/p>\n

Read this all here:?? http:\/\/www.ninds.nih.gov\/disorders\/tourette\/detail_tourette.htm<\/p>\n

I am not trying to prematurely diagnose Ty with tourette’s and I hope it ISN’T that but some of the symptoms are suspicious.?? Hopefully it’s just bad summer allergies (but strange that this is his only symptom if it is allergies).<\/p>\n

Then I am concerned about Tori because her skin looks especially bad today.?? I can’t decide if I think she has excema or vitaligo or both.?? She started getting rashes on the insides of her arms (at the bend), many months ago. They would welt, turn red, then the welts would go down, then the skin would turn white.<\/p>\n

It seems that excema is likely because (a) her skin gets really dry patches (b) it’s especially bad in the sweat spots (c) it raises, welts, rashes, and then loses color in cycles (d) the heat makes it worse.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I also am wondering about vitaligo because the pigment is bleaching out and not just in the rash\/dry spots.?? In other areas too.?? Mostly on her arms right now.?? She is just getting white patches.???? I have family members with vitaligo so I have seen it and I know that it is most noticeable during the summer.?? I remember my brother getting so tan and then being spotted with very low pigmentation areas.?? It seems to have gotten a lot better as he has gotten older.<\/p>\n

Also am wondering if nationalities with darker skin have a harder time with it being noticeable (if it is vitaligo?).<\/p>\n

Will be scheduling a Dr.’s appointment soon for both kids because I don’t know what to do with either one of them.?? I could use Eucerin on Tori’s patches and that might help the rashed\/dry areas but it will do nothing for the pigment loss.?? My MIL put baby lotion on her today and I noticed that the inside of her arms were REALLY rashed tonight so I am wondering if the lotion we used actually made it worse today.<\/p>\n

I think I need to go to bed now and tackle these problems tomorow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ty Antics: Told him in the car that when we got home everyone was going to get in the spa.?? He wanted to play Xbox.?? Sorry Charlie.?? He thinks then says “Mommy.?? What will happen if I splash while I am in the spa?”?? I say “I know exactly what you are up to Ty.?? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[41,44],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries","tag-sneak-peeks","tag-zandi"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}