Landin Claire's Vanderbilt Neuro Appt

Today was the day for Landin Claire's Neurology appointment with Dr. Reddy. I had been telling her for a week that she was going. So when she woke up this morning she was well aware that she was "going to get her head looked at". And her response was "I realllly don't want to go". Eddie and I told her that she would be fine and that they wouldn't do anything that was going to hurt her. I told her I didn't want to go either, but we had to. That seemed to ease her fears a little. So I dropped Kohen off at school, and took Landin Claire and Briggs to Bennie Mae at the park. I went to work until 10:30 and then went back and picked her and Briggs up. I promised her that I would buy McDonalds for lunch, so we went by there and headed to her appointment that was scheduled for 1:00. 

So I guess what I need to tell is why we were going to the Pediatric Neurologist in the first place... When she was 18 months old she started getting car/motion sick. I never really thought that was odd, but thought it might play a part in her actually problem. When she had just turned three, we were at home playing and I had picked her up and sat her in my lap to love on her. When I got her in my lap she started acting funny... swayed to the left, couldn't really hold her head up, but laughing. She didn't convulse, throw up, black out or anything. She was completely there, but just not herself. At the time, I didn't know what was going on. It only lasted 30sec and then she was herself again. I thought she was just playing a game with me and I didn't think anything else about it. Then about 6 months later, it happened again. But this time I was more aware of what was going on. This time she was playing in the living room and started stumbling sideways. She couldn't get her balance, so I picked her up and put her in my lap. She had the same reaction in my lap as the time before. She swayed to the left, couldn't hold her head up, and laughed through the whole thing. So once she was finished this time I knew that she was not playing a game, it was involuntary. So I asked her a couple of questions... Why couldn't you stand up? Why were you falling over? She answered that she didn't know and then she she finally said that she was spinning around. I said, "Baby you weren't spinning around."  I said ,"were you spinning or was the room spinning?"  She said the floor was spinning. So fast forward to today...

 

We got to her appointment and went to the 9th floor. We got checked in and went to the lobby. They played a little game and we waited to be called back. 

Her nurse's name was Kim and she took her vitals, height, and weight. She weighed 34lbs and was 3ft 2in. She sat sooo still. 

Dr. Reddy came in and asked questions about her episodes and her history. She told us that Landin Claire is having migraines. She should grow out of them by the time she is 5 or 6, but advised us to keep a close eye on her and if the episodes changed in any way to let them know. I was very relieved! 

So as we were going back down to the car I remembered that I had told Landin Claire that we would have ice cream after she "got her head checked out". So we went exploring and found the ice cream shop. 

I have noticed that before I had kids it was very easy to let God be in control... have the reins in my life. But for some reason now that I have kids I find myself with the reins back in my hands too much. It is not something that I want or even know I am doing until I look around and notice that the peace is gone. I want God to be King in every aspect of my life, and I know my kids ultimately belong to him. But sometimes it is just human nature (especially my human nature) to be in control. But today I won that fleshly struggle and God had the reins... And of course he was faithful.