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Torn
| Mon, 07-11-2011 - 11:51am |
Hi everyone. I am feeling very overwhelmed. Me and my husband have very different opinion on what is the right thing to do when it comes to our daughter who was born with a cleft lip and palate. She has had three surgeries so far. Two as an infant and one when she was almost four. It took me two years to get him to agree to having her last surgery which should have been done when she was a little over a year old. We had some problems at the hospital which caused him anxiety about moving forward. She still has a small hold in the roof of her mouth and the palate does not reach the back of her throat which is important for her speech. They told us at her last appointment that she would need to have a pharyngeal flap surgery to fix the problem. This appointment was very hard bc the ent was being really rough with het to the point I said something to him. He got rude but when I showed him that there was s better way to go about handling her he saw I was right and apologized. Me and my husband were very upset seeing our little one so scared and stressed out. We were suppose to have an appointment a few month ago and my husband made me cancel it and a few months before that and he made me cancel that one as well. I think that one bad appointment should not keep us,from keeping up with her appointment. I just want to do what is best for my daughters future. I know I was right to push him for her last surgery and he even apologized for how he. acted but I just feel anxious thinking about having to go through all that over again. he gets so mad if I bring any of her. appointments up to him. I don't know what to do. I don't want him to resent me. I also don't want to feel. like I failed to do the right thing for our little girl. I don't think he wants to be this way I just think. he has a lot of anxiety about it all. wish it was easier. I donno what to do from here. feeling very torn.
we had kind of a similar thing. At
(((HUGS))) I hope that you can get him to listen to you. As hard as it is, you have to be your daughter's advocate.
My DH and I don't see eye to eye on medical things. He is such a baby when it comes to his stuff yet the rest of us forget and don't get me started on when we no I went to get the ADHD diagnosis. After him nearly humilating me in front of the teachers at school I went behind his back and did it. Course he won't come out and say it but seeing the outcome he is the one hesitant about a drug free summer not me ;0
You just have to learn to stand your ground its hard, I was the one facing the teachers all the time so I felt I HAD to at least explore it. For his cleft stuff its a bit different because its visual you know there was an issue. Not saying somethings wrong with the repair just a cleft itself usually there is no question not like other things especially the ADHD there is not blood test to say yes this kid is ADHD its subjective in someways vs a cleft you looked at him when he was born and it was like BAM so that was easier in some ways. But men deal with things different now the visual is gone he may have gone into a denial so to speak. My dad was the same way he doesn't deal with illness well its a guy thing. Dh never hounds me to get this stuff done which can be an issue. I am in an avoidance phase I know the big one is coming up but if we just don't go to clinic it won't come which I know is not the case but then again I don't see the point of clinic every year for Liam, nothing changes we are YEARS away from the dental stuff so instead I pay $100 in co pays to tell me what I already know and hear year after year in a few years so skipping 1 while I deal with his other stuff is one thing but I know it NEEDS to get done and DH does too but he will NEVER say "hey isn't it time to see PS" thats just men